# Should we cry at work?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Audio Collective
- Speaker: TED Business
- Year: 2021
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Psychology and the brain, Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ted_business_should_we_cry_at_work)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Feelings are complicated. And even more so at work. We like to believe the ultimate professional is stoic, but what important information do we miss when we disregard our emotions on the job? In this episode, Harvard psychologist Susan David helps us break free from the "tyranny of positivity" and embrace the full range of our emotions. After the talk, host Modupe Akinola extends this idea to the workplace by examining a time she shed tears at a meeting with colleagues. Listen and subscribe to TED Business and more podcasts from the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.ted.com.

## Lectures

1. [Should we cry at work?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ted_business_should_we_cry_at_work/b5f5d6785ffb), 25 min (TED's player)