How to 10x Your Emotional Intelligence - Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett

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9 ай бұрын

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In this thought-provoking episode, Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett delves into the intricate workings of the brain, and its primary role in regulating bodily systems for overall well-being. Unravel the concept of affect, the ever-present feelings we experience, influencing our responses to life's challenges. Discover the transformative power of emotional granularity, as it enables us to discern and label emotions with precision, impacting our mental health profoundly. Gain insights into how investing in diverse experiences and learning can shape our future, "seeding" our brains for positive changes and empowering us to embrace personal responsibility. Uncover the path to enhanced resilience and a brighter life in this compelling talk.
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Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett is in the top one percent of the most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, and also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior.
In addition to the books Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain and How Emotions are Made, Dr. Barrett has published over 260 peer-reviewed, scientific papers appearing in Science, Nature Neuroscience, and other top journals in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, as well as six academic volumes. She has also given a popular TED talk with over 6.5 million views.
You can learn more about Dr Barrett's work by going to: www.lisafeldmanbarrett.com
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This session was recorded as part of the "Holistic Psychotherapy Summit" in January 2023. To access the full conference package, as well as supporting materials, quizzes, and certification, please visit: theweekenduniversity.com/memb....
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Interview Links:
- Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain - Lisa Feldman Barrett: amzn.to/3CWM1VQ
- How Emotions are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett: amzn.to/3Rx1BeT
- Dr Barrett’s website: www.lisafeldmanbarrett.com
- Matter and Consciousness - Dr Iain McGilchrist: bit.ly/3RGSQz0
3 Books Dr Barrett Recommends Every Therapist Should Read:
- Between us by Batja Mesquita - amzn.to/3FdYkxT
- The End of Trauma by George Bonanno - amzn.to/3AW1fbL
- How Emotions are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett - amzn.to/3GVdxFl

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@Kormac80 9 ай бұрын

Habits and feedback loops are key. Emotional habits. Her notions about the difficulty or effort is accurate. One simply has to recognize they're in the habit of being angry, sad or afraid and that those reactions inform a whole cycle in your body/mind. So make a decision to embrace peace and dislodge the habit of suffering. Then create the mechanisms for making that decision happen.

@DAClub-uf3br Күн бұрын

How do you learn to identify emotions?

@psyfiles7351 7 ай бұрын

Wow that is the best one sentence summary of this brilliant woman’s expansion of our understanding of emotions thank you!

@cristianos21encontexto17 3 ай бұрын

Great explanation, full of scientific and human wisdom

@ninjatall15 5 ай бұрын

Summary for ADHD folks. - [00:00] 🧠 Understanding Affect vs. Emotions - The brain's primary role is to regulate the body's systems, sending and receiving signals constantly. - Affect, often referred to as mood, is a continuous, ever-present feeling that is with us 24/7. - Affect doesn't have one specific cause but arises from the ongoing internal bodily processes. - [05:29] 📊 Emotional Granularity and Its Significance - Emotional granularity refers to having a rich vocabulary and understanding of emotions. - Having a broader emotional vocabulary allows for more precise interpretation of sense data. - People with higher emotional granularity tend to cope better and have better mental and physical health. - [10:07]🤔 Implications for Personal Responsibility and Free Will - Changing one's actions and behaviors involves shaping future predictions by experiencing new things. - We are responsible for our actions and reactions, even when victimized, as we have the power to influence our future responses. - Personal responsibility doesn't imply culpability but rather the ability to take control of our lives and responses.

@emmacapell96 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant! Thanks so much for that!

@croguy Ай бұрын

THANK YOU!

@quantumwaver 9 ай бұрын

Not everyone is formulating experience based on the past, most are still experiencing things in the present, many of which are unpleasant, entirely out of their control and inescapable. Helping people to change their circumstances, not their minds, (like providing quality, affordable sound-proofed housing, safe greenspace or forming effective unions) would be of most benefit but it doesn't fit within the idealism of the contemporary hegemonic order. On the other hand, blaming individuals for lacking emotional granularity fits the current paradigm very well. ❤‍🔥🙏

@denissidorenko8832 6 ай бұрын

Video title does not correspond to what the video is actually about

@Abc19853 9 ай бұрын

I don't think brain makes concepts when u r asleep , I think it makes cue--events unlimited association (which creates conciousness)

@sj_joe7765 8 ай бұрын

Now i have curious. If this argument is true, can you use this theory to argue how people are not culpable for committing crime?

@Paseosinperro 14 күн бұрын

I think people are not culpable for committing a crime but for all of us as a society is better to do something about that, so the person can learn and also to keep all us safe in the future. I think jail as it is today is not the best option but maybe something where criminals can learn and heal themselves would be better. I recommend you to watch something from Gregory Boyle, a man who help gang members in Los Angeles. He is awesome!

@hermitthefrog8951 Ай бұрын

I seen to know a fair number of people whose affect doesn't closely correlate with their sensory data...

@igorvolkov6396 5 ай бұрын

6:47 Affect is a feature of consciousness. The theory of triune brain is well suited as a framework for such matters. Each tier is a regulatory loop with input and output. What is needed - to understand how they interact with each other. The key point is terminology. The present words often mix rather different functions. So far as I understand, affect is a very broad term. For initial understanding, better to avoid it at all. Emotions (output) and feelings (input) happen in different structures. The former are generated by the limbic system (mammal brain). The latter emerge in cortical areas (probably in the cingulate gyrus which is shared by the 2 and 3 tiers of triune brain indeed). That is feeling is perception of own emotion.

@thinkIndependent2024 2 ай бұрын

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@stephencaudill2422 9 ай бұрын

Irish lad...☘

@njj5674 5 ай бұрын

All I hear is what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. That's fine but the world is not full of people who are psychologists and most struggle in life to except the ups and downs or even understand why they have ups and downs.... You take the time to understand yourself and what triggers you to create these emotions. All of a sudden you find yourself alone because you are now psychoanalysing yourself and everything, every person or a future relationships etc. Perhaps TV and the media should stop trying to put every human into a box so they behave in a controlled robot like manner. I think we all forget we are animals and perhaps we should let nature and natural evolution evolve us. You put an animal into a cage, trapped and it will go nuts. I'm sorry but humans and animals are all born with some basic inherit genes. Man made evolution is trying to make everyone conform to a world of control simply for selfish greed and financial gain. The ones who suffer are the pawns on the chess board... If I'm wrong why has mental health escalated off the scale? Psychologists are very good at telling people what's wrong with them, but not so good at curing them. Perhaps curing people would be less profitable?

@geofflecren8827 9 ай бұрын

Buddhism has been saying all of this for over 2,000 years.

@quantumwaver 9 ай бұрын

True. Buddha was also very lucky. Buddha could go and sit under a tree peacefully to meditate, drink from a river and eat fruit from wild trees - the global population was around 1/80th of what it is now. Many of us no longer have access to such luxuries.

@geofflecren8827 9 ай бұрын

@@quantumwaver My point is only that science continues to prove what we have known for a very long time. To answer your point, you don't need to do as Buddha did, because he already did it, this knowledge and of many teachers since is now readily available to all of humanity. Blessings

@quantumwaver 9 ай бұрын

@@geofflecren8827 Thanks for your reply Geoff 🙏. I think we're on the same page but I suspect if Buddha (SG) was alive today he would not have been able to find the peace he did in order to achieve/escape his mental state. In fact he would have probably lived a short time as a hobo before being murdered, or arrested and locked up in a mental institute. That is aside from the fact that his privileged upbringing would almost certainly have left him with far fewer psychological wounds too as he wanted for nothing and, unlike most modern seekers, his spiritual quest was provoked by the suffering of others in the first instance, not his own. The knowledge must be attained through practice, admittedly for some this can be short, but you don't achieve it by reading about buddha, in fact you can achieve it without knowing anything about him, so I disagree that you don't need to do what buddha did (i.e. meditating and renouncing material possessions is essential). Without capacity for extensive periods of peace and calm either in an accepting environment or in isolation, and somewhere you can at least get clean water, it becomes difficult if not impossible. We could understand his life as allergory, but again it is a myth constructed under very different conditions. For many, today, it is increasingly difficult to get any peace and quiet with traffic, sirens, aircraft, power tools and machines, guns, crowds, TV, neighbours or cohabiting family with loud stereos etc. and the means for escaping these intrusions is also lacking due to the density of population and regulation of what is permitted outdoors - i.e. vagrancy being a crime in most places. As for access to clean, unadulterated water, well ... 🙏

@andresdiaz7112 7 ай бұрын

This would be a generalization, please supply granularity in sharing some of Buddha's concepts so that we can understand your idea in saying "Buddhism has been saying all of this for over 2,000 years.". My ask, supply Buddhist granularity by sharing with us a few of Buddha's concepts and connect them to what Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett shared so that we can try to experience what you mean.

@geofflecren8827 7 ай бұрын

@@andresdiaz7112 We perceive and then label according to our biased perception, usually based on past experiences, this is typical human behaviour. Buddhism talks of emptiness, that all things are actually empty of what our mind perceives/labels them to be. This is what's discussed at 7:00 but there many examples in this video.

@pimbu936 9 ай бұрын

Damn, learn some math and stop calling competencies intelligence, intelligence is a specific word with a specific meaning that actually already has a meaning assigned to it

@Amor_fati.Memento_Mori 9 ай бұрын

Words can have different connotations yes?

@andresdiaz7112 7 ай бұрын

Howard Gardner, creator of the "multiple intelligence theory", defines intelligence as "your ability to solve a problem under a given context (music, DO RE MI, math, 1 + 1 = 2, etc)