The Huberman Lab Podcast discusses neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. We also discuss existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. His laboratory studies neural regeneration, neuroplasticity, and brain states such as stress, focus, fear, and optimal performance. For more than 20 years, Dr. Huberman has consistently published original research findings and review articles in top-level peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, and Current Biology. He is a regular member of several National Institutes of Health review panels and a Fellow of the McKnight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Huberman regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations, and various units of U.S. and Canadian Special Operations.

How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc Brackett

April 20, 2026 2:27:52 25.02 MB ( -25.03 MB less) Downloads: 0

Dr. Marc Brackett, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Yale University and director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. We discuss the science of emotion regulation and practical tools to increase your emotional intelligence. Dr. Brackett clarifies exactly how to do that both in the context of relationships, but also things that you can do on your own to become more emotionally intelligent to later serve you in the context of relationships, work, school, etc. We also discuss how your childhood experiences influence your relationship with emotions, with particular emphasis on how boys and men are socialized around emotional processing and expression.

Read the show notes at hubermanlab.com.

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Timestamps

(00:00:00) Marc Brackett

(00:02:55) Emotion Regulation

(00:05:53) Emotion Mindset, Anxiety; Good or Bad Emotions?

(00:11:25) Sponsors: Joovv & Lingo

(00:13:54) Permission for Happiness; Gender, Emotion Suppression

(00:22:13) Young Men, Vulnerability, Incapable; Gay Men

(00:31:00) Boys & Men, Crying; Emotion Socialization

(00:37:34) Sponsor: AG1

(00:38:58) Physical Interaction; Rough/Tumble Play, Teaching Emotion Regulation

(00:46:47) Emotion Calibration, Tools: Leaders & Being a Role Model; Meta-Moment

(00:56:15) Meditation & Stress Tolerance, Tool: Label Emotions; Childhood

(01:03:12) Sponsor: LMNT

(01:04:32) Understand Your Assumptions, Tool: Intentional Co-Regulation

(01:12:09) Vocabulary & Rethinking Emotion, Tool: Reframing

(01:15:49) Emotional Intelligence Training, Self-Evaluation

(01:22:15) Living with Discomfort & Emotional Intelligence

(01:27:01) Marc's Work & Criticism; Emotion "Leakage" & Switching Mindset

(01:34:19) Sponsor: Rorra

(01:35:32) Excitement, Positive Emotion; Modern Concerns, AI & Disconnection

(01:45:11) Major Societal Challenges & Everyday Progress

(01:54:38) Physical/Emotional Identity & Envision Best Self, Tool: Meta-Moment

(02:05:33) Emotional Intelligence

(02:12:46) Curiosity & Compassion; Reflection, Identity

(02:19:32) Point of Connection Game

(02:25:02) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter

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