Dr. Marc Brackett: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence

2204.474 - 2222.798 Dr. Marc Brackett

is that we don't spend enough time helping people strive for contentment and we push people to strive for happiness, which there's research to show, you know, backfires. You know, if you're waking up every day saying, what am I going to do to be happy? What am I going to do to be happy? Chances are, you know, it's not going to work out a lot. And that kind of backfires to create more despair.