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The Emotion You're Most Ashamed of Is the One Worth Listening To
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- The Next Big Idea Daily
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- Apr 14, 2026
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- 1646
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Summary
Most of us treat envy, rage, and shame like problems to fix — but psychotherapist Daniel Smith argues those "hard feelings" carry wisdom we can't afford to ignore. Then, in the second half, Harvard psychiatrist Christopher Palmer makes a bold case in Brain Energy that many mental health disorders are actually metabolic disorders of the brain — and that reframing could change everything about how we treat them.