2022-10-17
1 小时 8 分钟I call it emotional leadership because sensitive people often feel things before other people do.
Like maybe they'll cry first or they'll get afraid first or they'll get angry first.
And generally that's what everybody ought to be feeling.
But they haven't figured it out yet.
Not always, but that's often true.
So what if being highly sensitive was actually a superpower and not something to be fixed?
Well, if you've ever heard the term highly sensitive person or maybe been called highly sensitive and maybe even recoiled a bit when that happened, our conversation with today's guest, doctor Elaine Aron.
It just might change your mind and even your world.
An acclaimed researcher, she first identified high sensitivity as this distinct character trait more than 25 years ago, introducing the term highly sensitive person to describe someone who is easily overwhelmed by strong sensory input, subtleties in environment and other people's moods, someone who processes things in different ways and at different speeds and deeply feels pressure and overall stimulation.
And since its publication in 1995, her preeminent book on the subject, the highly sensitive person, has gone on to become an international bestseller, translated into 30 languages.
She's also the author of the highly sensitive parent and many others.
And she has established the foundation for the study of highly sensitive persons and published many scientific articles on sensitivity in leading journals in her field.
And it turns out today's conversation was also personal because in many ways I've begun to realize that I actually identify as a highly sensitive person.
But I also discovered so much more about the way that I move through the world.
How this trait relates to things like introversion and extroversion.
Very surprising.
And how you can be both highly sensitive while also being high sensation, which I had never heard of before.
And we also discover how Elaine's lens on high sensitivity has really evolved in major and meaningful ways since her groundbreaking early research on the topic.
So excited to share this best of conversation with you.
Hello, I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life project.