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Emotional Agility

Emotional Agility

By Susan David

Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life. Penguin Random House, 2016.

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A brief summary of Emotional Agility

A practical and engaging guide to building the ability to recognize and accept your emotions without feeling controlled by them, filled with workable exercises and relatable examples to help you become flexible and dynamic.

Key insights in Emotional Agility

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What do you get from this book? Master emotional agility and learn to recognize and move past your negative emotions
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Emotions are essential human responses to the outside world—even seemingly negative emotions—and must be embraced and understood
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Incessant thoughts are often negative or biased, and can soon turn into opinions, judgements, and unhelpful comparisons
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While bottlers ignore their negative emotions, brooders continually rehash and amplify past events
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Though difficult to do, self-compassion is essential for dealing with painful emotions like guilt and shame
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By writing about your emotions and putting your fears into words, you can tame even your most problematic concerns
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Identifying your values helps you create a roadmap and a way of navigating to your ideal life
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Your mindset and motivations can make an enormous difference in your ability to achieve your goals in line with your values
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Biases, subconscious beliefs, and old narratives can show up at work, but emotional agility can help you feel engaged
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Children can benefit immensely from developing emotional agility and creating distance between their feelings and their values
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Who should read Emotional Agility

Psychologists • life coaches • parents • teachers • anyone wanting to regulate their emotions better

About the author of Emotional Agility

A Harvard Medical School psychologist, Susan David, Ph.D., is also CEO of Evidence Based Psychology and a co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital. David has been published in Time, the Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review and has worked with top executives in some of the world’s largest organizations.

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