📝 The story behind the little key
A researcher of emotions
Brackett has spent his career studying emotional intelligence — how understanding our feelings helps us learn, connect, and thrive — and founded a center at Yale dedicated to it.
Permission to Feel
His book argues that children (and adults) do better when they're given permission to feel their emotions and taught to name them, rather than being told to push feelings away.
Name it to tame it
A central finding in his work is that simply naming an emotion helps calm and understand it — turning an overwhelming feeling into useful information, exactly the lesson tonight's story brings to life.
