Hacking Your Emotional API
summary
Models emotions as an emotional API with hardwired endpoints and messy middleware that gets refactored; claims unprocessed feelings create “emotional debt” that degrades executive function, short‑term memory, and stress response (studies cited) and that training improves behavior, grades, and physical health. Toolkit lists four levels: conceptual frames, solo techniques like journaling, rubber duck verbal processing and a weekly emotional retro, then paired work and group methods such as a P3 workshop and deliberately throw a fit to release entrenched anger.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Emotional API metaphor
- 2:08Emotional middleware
- 5:18Unprocessed emotions at work
- 8:45Emotions in teams and leadership
- 13:04Level one tools for emotions
- 18:41Level two solo techniques
- 24:47Level three sharing feelings
- 27:14Level four group healing
- 33:21Personal grief journey
- 38:01Emotional skills are not soft
- 39:47Next steps and resources
