David Brooks

If you're low pleasure, high energy, that's anxiety.

If you just pause in the course of a day, say, where am I?

Where do I put myself on the mood meter, which is basically a chart with four quadrants.

You can say, I'm feeling good, but low energy, and that's tranquility.

And then you, the process of naming your emotion, giving a label to it is a tremendously powerful tool because you want your emotions to be your advisor and not your master, uh, to tell you, you know, here's what you're feeling.

Here's what your emotions are measuring.

Are you moving toward your goals or away from your goals?

You want to know that information, but you don't want your emotions dictating where you go because then they'll spiral out of control.

The mood meter is a good one.

Reading literature is one.

If you've got young people, the activity they can do in school,

that is most likely to increase their emotional awareness is drama, is playing a role in theater.

And that really has these big effects because you have to put yourself into not only the mind of another person, but into the heart and soul of another person.

And that's a revolutionary experience for a lot of people.

Yeah, well, I'm still hiring my team.

So we haven't actually launched the podcast.

So it'll launch hopefully later in the spring.

So, but it's a very interesting observation, which I frankly had not thought about.

I will say I do a fair bit of public speaking, and I would say what I've done, I've made my writing to be more like my speaking.

And my rule of speaking is, first of all, I try to begin every speech with some jokes, because when the audience is sitting there, when they first get there,