Dr. Ethan Kross

We might want to throw some lifelines out to the community to make sure they check up on us. And indeed we do. And the way that sadness allows us to do that is by doing what? Give it to me. Making the... There you go. We're jamming now, right? That is so powerful a cue to pull us in.

We might want to throw some lifelines out to the community to make sure they check up on us. And indeed we do. And the way that sadness allows us to do that is by doing what? Give it to me. Making the... There you go. We're jamming now, right? That is so powerful a cue to pull us in.

This conversation here about evolutionary significance touches on this topic of toxic positivity, which I talk about in the book as something that I'm not a huge fan of because we often hear that the goal in life should be to Maximize positivity and try to avoid negative emotional experiences. No bad vibes. Good vibes only. If that's your goal, number one, good luck.

This conversation here about evolutionary significance touches on this topic of toxic positivity, which I talk about in the book as something that I'm not a huge fan of because we often hear that the goal in life should be to Maximize positivity and try to avoid negative emotional experiences. No bad vibes. Good vibes only. If that's your goal, number one, good luck.

This conversation here about evolutionary significance touches on this topic of toxic positivity, which I talk about in the book as something that I'm not a huge fan of because we often hear that the goal in life should be to Maximize positivity and try to avoid negative emotional experiences. No bad vibes. Good vibes only. If that's your goal, number one, good luck.

You're giving people an unattainable goal. We have the capacity to experience these responses for a reason. When I think back to like performances that I have given where I've not experienced any anxiety, those are the ones that have tended to fall flat because there was no cue inside me that motivated me to energize and prepare. I mean, is this true for you?

You're giving people an unattainable goal. We have the capacity to experience these responses for a reason. When I think back to like performances that I have given where I've not experienced any anxiety, those are the ones that have tended to fall flat because there was no cue inside me that motivated me to energize and prepare. I mean, is this true for you?

You're giving people an unattainable goal. We have the capacity to experience these responses for a reason. When I think back to like performances that I have given where I've not experienced any anxiety, those are the ones that have tended to fall flat because there was no cue inside me that motivated me to energize and prepare. I mean, is this true for you?

Have you ever found that a little bit of anxiety can be your friend?

Have you ever found that a little bit of anxiety can be your friend?

Have you ever found that a little bit of anxiety can be your friend?

Look, no one is saying that negative emotions don't blow up and metastasize. This is why I got into this business in the first place. Because these emotions that we have, these negative emotions, they're tools, but they are unwieldy tools. If we use the metaphor of a hammer, Hammer in the right hands? My grandfather was a carpenter.

Look, no one is saying that negative emotions don't blow up and metastasize. This is why I got into this business in the first place. Because these emotions that we have, these negative emotions, they're tools, but they are unwieldy tools. If we use the metaphor of a hammer, Hammer in the right hands? My grandfather was a carpenter.

Look, no one is saying that negative emotions don't blow up and metastasize. This is why I got into this business in the first place. Because these emotions that we have, these negative emotions, they're tools, but they are unwieldy tools. If we use the metaphor of a hammer, Hammer in the right hands? My grandfather was a carpenter.

built beautiful homes, hammer in the wrong hand, my hand, a hammer, source of massive destruction. Same is true of our emotions. And so what I find so interesting is on the one hand, we're born into this world with this capacity to experience this wild range of emotions, positive and negative, and they serve us well. They're tools, but they're really unwieldy. So guess what?

built beautiful homes, hammer in the wrong hand, my hand, a hammer, source of massive destruction. Same is true of our emotions. And so what I find so interesting is on the one hand, we're born into this world with this capacity to experience this wild range of emotions, positive and negative, and they serve us well. They're tools, but they're really unwieldy. So guess what?

built beautiful homes, hammer in the wrong hand, my hand, a hammer, source of massive destruction. Same is true of our emotions. And so what I find so interesting is on the one hand, we're born into this world with this capacity to experience this wild range of emotions, positive and negative, and they serve us well. They're tools, but they're really unwieldy. So guess what?

We also evolve the capacity to to rein these tools in through these regulatory techniques that we all possess, but they don't come with a user's manual. And that in a certain sense is what I and lots of other scientists have been doing for many decades now is trying to build that user's manual to help people manage their emotions.

We also evolve the capacity to to rein these tools in through these regulatory techniques that we all possess, but they don't come with a user's manual. And that in a certain sense is what I and lots of other scientists have been doing for many decades now is trying to build that user's manual to help people manage their emotions.

We also evolve the capacity to to rein these tools in through these regulatory techniques that we all possess, but they don't come with a user's manual. And that in a certain sense is what I and lots of other scientists have been doing for many decades now is trying to build that user's manual to help people manage their emotions.