Reaction with Will Esty

When we allow ourselves to be pushed to emotional extremes on a daily basis, we lose the ability to direct those emotions towards what really matters. If we burn up all of our anger at someone cutting us off in traffic, we have none left to forge into the outrage that drives us to march in the streets. If we drain ourselves weeping every minute of the day, the sorrow we feel at the death of a loved one rings hollow. What we need, then, is to learn how to regulate and channel those emotions into those areas that can have a tangible impact on the world