Naming an emotion while it is happening is the first competence — everything else is built on it.
The cheapest intervention in the book and probably the most reliable: labelling appears to engage prefrontal regions and measurably dampen the amygdala response.
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prerequisite-of →There are two 'yous' — the emotional actor and the rational designer; step out and design the machine the emotional you operates.You cannot step out and act as the designer until you can see the actor operating. Dalio assumes this capacity and never explains how to acquire it; this is the missing first step.