Science and practice of emotions | Maurizio La Cava & Joshua Freedman
Want to understand why, in the age of AI, emotional intelligence has become the most precious human skill? In this episode, Maurizio La Cava talks with Joshua Freedman, CEO and co-founder of Six Seconds, about the relationship between emotions, communication, and decisions.
Throughout the conversation, they explore why people remember how we made them feel more than what we say, what it really means to be “smarter with feelings”, and why we’re living through an “emotional recession”: a measured decline in emotional intelligence worldwide, hitting younger people hardest.
From the relationship between AI and humanity to the phenomenon of work slop (output that looks good but isn’t), and the averaging effect of LLMs that flattens everything toward the mean, this conversation tackles the question that really matters: what do we hand to AI, and what do we keep for ourselves?
You’ll also discover why, in an age of speed, we need more moments of pause: sometimes the smartest move is to switch the AI off, slow down even for six seconds, and start feeling again, because listening and being present have become the rarest and most precious human skills.
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