>> A lot of Americans tie up a lot of their emotions in work success. > America has a very work-centric culture. > Why are people so afraid of direct conver

>> A lot of Americans tie up a lot of their emotions in work success. > America has a very work-centric culture. > Why are people so afraid of direct conversation? I feel like the "emotions" side is just as important as the "work" side, here. To be able to (1) be emotionally invested and (2) have those emotions hurt from time to time can be just fine, as long as you can also (3) process those emotions in a healthy way. I feel like a lot of Americans (and humans in general, to be fair) have trouble with (3). If I could magically fix it, I think I would be less interested in "make people more able to maintain emotional distance at work" and more in "make people more able to deal with emotions when they come up, in general". Just my 2¢