#1 Wall Street Journal Best Seller USA Today Best Seller Amazon Best Book of the Year TED Talk sensation - over 3 million views! The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year. The path to personal and professional fulfillment is rarely straight. Ask anyone who has achieved his or her biggest goals or whose relationships thrive and you'll hear stories of many unexpected detours along the way. What separates those who ...
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#1 Wall Street Journal Best Seller USA Today Best Seller Amazon Best Book of the Year TED Talk sensation - over 3 million views! The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year. The path to personal and professional fulfillment is rarely straight. Ask anyone who has achieved his or her biggest goals or whose relationships thrive and you'll hear stories of many unexpected detours along the way. What separates those who master these challenges and those who get derailed? The answer is agility--emotional agility. Emotional agility is a revolutionary, science-based approach that allows us to navigate life's twists and turns with self-acceptance, clear-sightedness, and an open mind. Renowned psychologist Susan David developed this concept after studying emotions, happiness, and achievement for more than twenty years. She found that no matter how intelligent or creative people are, or what type of personality they have, it is how they navigate their inner world--their thoughts, feelings, and self-talk--that ultimately determines how successful they will become. The way we respond to these internal experiences drives our actions, careers, relationships, happiness, health--everything that matters in our lives. As humans, we are all prone to common hooks--things like self-doubt, shame, sadness, fear, or anger--that can too easily steer us in the wrong direction. Emotionally agile people are not immune to stresses and setbacks. The key difference is that they know how to adapt, aligning their actions with their values and making small but powerful changes that lead to a lifetime of growth. Emotional agility is not about ignoring difficult emotions and thoughts; it's about holding them loosely, facing them courageously and compassionately, and then moving past them to bring the best of yourself forward. Drawing on her deep research, decades of international consulting, and her own experience overcoming adversity after losing her father at a young age, David shows how anyone can thrive in an uncertain world by becoming more emotionally agile. To guide us, she shares four key concepts that allow us to acknowledge uncomfortable experiences while simultaneously detaching from them, thereby allowing us to embrace our core values and adjust our actions so they can move us where we truly want to go. Written with authority, wit, and empathy, Emotional Agility serves as a road map for real behavioral change--a new way of acting that will help you reach your full potential, whoever you are and whatever you face.
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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.
