Show Notes
A coworker's message reads like a jab. Your kid knocks over a full cup two minutes before you have to be out the door. Someone cuts you off in traffic. Your partner says one offhand thing that lands wrong. In that instant, the sharp reply, the raised voice, the thumb already moving toward send, feels automatic, like the only choice left is cleanup afterward.
It isn't. There's a real gap between feeling the spike and reacting to it, and it's longer than it feels. This episode looks at what brain research on naming emotion actually found — in a study where people labeled emotionally charged images — and the one honest-word move it points to for using that gap, giving you a real shot at choosing what comes out the other side of it instead of finding out afterward.
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