A five-minute look at the emotional vocabulary you were — and were not — given.
In the keynote, I make the case that modern humans are emotionally undereducated for the complexity of the world they now inhabit.
Not because we are lazy. Not because we are broken. Because nobody taught us this systematically — the way we were taught math, or grammar, or how to read a clock.
This audit takes about five minutes. At the end, you will see where your formal education stopped — and you will receive a card of fifty emotion words most adults were never given. They are yours now.
Your profile will appear on the next screen. I will also send the printable 50-word card to your email so you can keep it near your desk, or your kitchen, or wherever you do your thinking.
No wrong answer. This just helps me send a follow-up that meets you where you are.
This is not a test you passed or failed. It is a map of where the formal emotional education most of us never received left off. Each domain is one place where adults are expected to know things they were never systematically taught.
Most adults move through their week using fewer than ten emotion words. The card below has fifty. It is not advanced English. It is basic emotional vocabulary that was withheld from you. A taste, before you receive the full card:
The full card — 50 words, organised into five clusters, with definitions and example sentences — is in the email I'm sending you now.
We teach math and language systematically.
We expect emotional vocabulary to appear by itself.
It does not.
— Mon