'Essential reading.' - Susan Cain, author of Quiet No.1 Wall Street Journal bestseller USA Today bestseller Amazon.com Best Book of the Year Every day we speak around 16,000 words - but inside our minds we create tens of thousands more. Thoughts such as 'I'm not spending enough time with my children' or 'I'm not good enough to present my work' can seem to be unshakable facts. In reality, they're the judgemental opinions of our inner voice. Drawing on more than twenty years of academic research, consulting, and her own ...
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'Essential reading.' - Susan Cain, author of Quiet No.1 Wall Street Journal bestseller USA Today bestseller Amazon.com Best Book of the Year Every day we speak around 16,000 words - but inside our minds we create tens of thousands more. Thoughts such as 'I'm not spending enough time with my children' or 'I'm not good enough to present my work' can seem to be unshakable facts. In reality, they're the judgemental opinions of our inner voice. Drawing on more than twenty years of academic research, consulting, and her own experiences overcoming adversity, Susan David PhD, a psychologist and faculty member at Harvard Medical School, has pioneered a new way to enable us to make peace with our inner self, achieve our most valued goals, make real change, and live life to the fullest. Susan David has found that emotionally agile people experience the same stresses and setbacks as anyone else. The difference is the emotionally agile know how to unhook themselves from unhelpful patterns, and how to create values-based success with better habits and behaviours. Emotional Agility describes a new way of living and relating to yourself and the world around you. Become aware of your true nature, learn to face your emotions with acceptance and generosity, act according to your deepest values, and flourish. 'An accessible, reader-friendly voyage. Emotional Agility can be helpful to anyone.' - Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence Susan David has a PhD in psychology and a post-doctorate in emotions research from Yale. She is a psychologist at the Harvard Medical School and a founder and director at the Harvard/McLean-affiliated Institute of Coaching. Susan is the CEO of Evidence Based Psychology, whose worldwide client list includes Ernst and Young Global, the UN Development Program, JP Morgan Chase and GlaxoSmithKline. She has edited a number of books including the Oxford Handbook of Happiness and her research has featured in theHarvard Business Review, TIME and the Wall Street Journal. Born in South Africa, Susan now lives in Boston with her family.
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Susan David, 2016, Emotional Agility: NY, Avery, 274 p., index.
Psychologist Susan David has put together a very readable and well edited book concerning everyday matters dealing with our emotions. Her lengthy, but positive subtitle is: "Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Live."
The book is divided into eleven relatively short chapters which contain much white space. These chapters progress fluidly from one stage to the next. And for a technical book, David mostly uses everyday language which the average person can understand. Occasionally the reader has to wonder what she means by unusual, slangy phrases such as "Trying to Unhook" and "Walking Your Why" and "Becoming Real." By the end of the book, these phrases are clarified.
A number of good anecdotes involving everyday situations contribute to the overall interest of the text. Those of us who are not in the medical profession can relate to many of these examples.
The author's background for writing such a book range from her childhood in South Africa to college education in South Africa and in Australia. She had a short, boring stint as technical writer in New Zealand. From 2004 to 2011, she was a research associate at Yale. Since May 2009 she has been on the faculty at Harvard's Medical School. Along the way, at age sixteen, she took a few hard knocks such as when her father, only forty-two, died of cancer.
While she doesn't explain how she got to the United States, evidently she married well and began a family with two children, thus providing additional broad experience compounded by the vastly changing world of instant, mass communication.
On page 43, David lists seven basic emotions. This statement is rather weak as Plutchik's wheel of emotions, available on the Internet, shows many more. On page 186, David provides an interesting six-line table for preliminary self-evaluation.