How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc Brackett — Key Takeaways
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How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc Brackett
Andrew Huberman2h 28mApr 20, 2026
Watch the originalEmotion regulation is not eliminating feelings but changing your relationship to them — the practical skill is inserting a deliberate pause ("meta moment") between stimulus and response, then acting from your best-self identity rather than your activated state.
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In this video
- 1mMarc Brackett
- 3mEmotion Regulation
- 6mEmotion Mindset, Anxiety; Good or Bad Emotions?
- 11mSponsors: Joovv & Lingo
- 14mPermission for Happiness; Gender, Emotion Suppression
- 22mYoung Men, Vulnerability, Incapable; Gay Men
- 31mBoys & Men, Crying; Emotion Socialization
- 38mSponsor: AG1
- 39mPhysical Interaction; Rough/Tumble Play, Teaching Emotion Regulation
- 47mEmotion Calibration, Tools: Leaders & Being a Role Model; Meta-Moment
- 56mMeditation & Stress Tolerance, Tool: Label Emotions; Childhood
- 1h 3mSponsor: LMNT
- 1h 5mUnderstand Your Assumptions, Tool: Intentional Co-Regulation
- 1h 12mVocabulary & Rethinking Emotion, Tool: Reframing
- 1h 16mEmotional Intelligence Training, Self-Evaluation
- 1h 22mLiving with Discomfort & Emotional Intelligence
- 1h 27mMarc's Work & Criticism; Emotion "Leakage" & Switching Mindset
- 1h 34mSponsor: Rorra
- 1h 36mExcitement, Positive Emotion; Modern Concerns, AI & Disconnection
- 1h 45mMajor Societal Challenges & Everyday Progress
- 1h 55mPhysical/Emotional Identity & Envision Best Self, Tool: Meta-Moment
- 2h 6mEmotional Intelligence
- 2h 13mCuriosity & Compassion; Reflection, Identity
- 2h 20mPoint of Connection Game
- 2h 25mZero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter
“There are no bad emotions. It's what we do with our emotions that makes them harmful or difficult for us to live our lives.”
— Marc Brackett
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