Episode 091: The Matrix & Big Feelings

5 Steps of Emotional Regulation in Children

• Children progress through five stages of emotional regulation, from least to most helpful.


• Externalizing aggression (anger outbursts) and withdrawal/internalizing (shutting down) are the least helpful.


• Avoidance (not addressing conflicts) is also destructive.


• Help-seeking is a more advanced stage, and probl

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Plato's Cave and The Matrix

• The Matrix is based on Plato's cave analogy.


• In the analogy, a prisoner chained in a cave interprets the world solely through shadows cast on the wall.


• Plato argues we need to unchain ourselves and leave the cave, just as Neo leaves the Matrix's false world by taking the red pill.


• Today's technology may create a superficia

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