Perfect for lovers of Quiet and The Power of Now, Emotional Agility shares a new way of relating to yourself and the world around you Every day we speak around 16,000 words - but inside 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 unshakeable facts. In reality, they're the judgemental opinions of our inner voice. Drawing on more than twenty years of academic research and her own experiences, Susan David ...
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Perfect for lovers of Quiet and The Power of Now, Emotional Agility shares a new way of relating to yourself and the world around you Every day we speak around 16,000 words - but inside 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 unshakeable facts. In reality, they're the judgemental opinions of our inner voice. Drawing on more than twenty years of academic research and her own experiences, Susan David PhD, a psychologist and faculty member at Harvard Medical School, has pioneered a new way to make peace with our inner self, achieve our most valued goals and live life to the fullest. Become aware of your true nature, learn to face your emotions with acceptance and generosity, act according to your deepest values, and flourish. 'Essential reading' Susan Cain, author of Quiet 'A practical, science-backed guide to looking inward and living intentionally' Arianna Huffington, author of The Sleep Revolution 'An accessible, reader-friendly voyage. Emotional Agility can be helpful to anyone.' Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
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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.