Susan David is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist. Her TED Talk on the topic of emotional agility has been seen by more than 10 million people, and her book, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life, is a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.

What you'll learn from this episode:

  • How the meaning of the South African word sawubona relates to our emotional agility, and why it’s so important to be able to see yourself and others in the world. 

  • Why you should stop labeling emotions as good or bad, and how to view our difficult emotions as signposts that lead us to one of our values.

  • The continuity of self: how having a conversation with the five-year-old inside you can help you gain distance from your emotion and push you toward a value.

  • Why positive affirmations as a sole strategy can be damaging: you’re just gaslighting yourself, denying reality, and possibly going into a situation unprepared.

  • Emotional granularity: how we can get better at the skill of being super specific about our emotions so we can connect with our wisdom and find "the space between stimulus and response."

  • And much more!

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