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Susan David, Ph.D. – Emotional Agility

February 19, 2019 Leave a Comment

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Susan David is a psychologist on faculty at Harvard Medical School. She’s also the co-founder and co-director of The Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital and is CEO of Evidence-Based Psychology. Her book is, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life. Have you ever gotten hooked by a difficult emotion? In other words, have you ever felt compelled to act on a strong feeling without having any space to think about your action first? If so, you will find really helpful wisdom in this episode that you can take, apply today and live a more skillful, open-hearted life.

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In This Interview, Susan David and I Discuss…

  • Her book, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
  • How emotions are a guidance system
  • That emotions can help us adapt and thrive
  • The thinking “unless I’m happy all the time, something is wrong”
  • Emotional Agility
  • Loosening up, calming down and living with more intention
  • The space between stimulus and response
  • Emotional rigidity
  • Allowing the story in our head to drive our actions
  • Being who we most want to be in this world
  • Moving away from the idea of “I have a thought and the thought is fact and I have to act on it”
  • Getting hooked – accepting thought as fact
  • That we are not our emotions – our emotions are a data source
  • The story that imprisons and keeps us from acting in an open-hearted way
  • How to get unhooked
  • Getting curious and compassionate about our emotions when we’re hooked
  • I’m noticing that I’m feeling ____
  • Creating a safe psychological space for ourselves
  • “Walking your why”
  • Choice points: do I move towards my values or away from my values?
  • Social contagion
  • Keeping your values front of mind
  • Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life
  • That our difficult emotions (like anxiety, for example) don’t have to go away in order for us to live according to our values
  • Under our difficult emotions are signposts for our values
  • Premature cognitive commitment
  • Stories help us to make sense of our world
  • Naming our stories

Susan David, Ph.D. Links:

susandavid.com

Ted Talk – Susan David, Ph.D.

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