Why Is Everyone So Emotionally Detached? - David Brooks - #770
Modern Wisdom
04/13/24
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David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times and an author.
We’re often told to control our emotions, but is that actually what we want? Or do we want to be confident enough to feel them fully? Instead of becoming too detached, how can we reconnect with our feelings and actually embrace our experience and connections?
Expect to learn why men have been conditioned to be so emotionally cut-off, why being stoic or aloof is perceived to be attractive, why so many people are repressed, how to accurately see people and make them feel comfortable, how to open up without triggering your fear, how to improve the energy you enter a room with and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) We Are Ignoring Our Emotions (05:34) Emotions Allow Us to Experience Life (11:09) The Vulnerability of Being Open (16:16) How to Balance Rationality & Emotion (21:11) Society’s Lack of Earnestness (24:17) Reacting to Sean Strickland & Theo Von (27:40) Seeing Each Other More Deeply (33:48) How to Be Comfortable With Feelings (41:42) The Powerful Use of Silence (44:44) How to Notice People Who Are Down (49:06) The Bravery of Being Open (52:26) How to End a Conversation Better (57:43) Questions to Make a Conversation Deeper (01:00:59) Where to Find David Brooks
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