As I mentioned in the introduction, we asked around seventy-five hundred people to identify all of the emotions that they could recognize and name when theyre experiencing them. The average was three: glad, sad, and mador, as they were more often written, happy, sad, and pissed off. Couple this extremely limited vocabulary with the importance of emotional literacy, and you basically have a crisis. Its this crisis that Im trying to help address in this book.

Dare to Lead by Brené Brown