Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Emotional Agility by Susan David, read by Claire Gordon Webster. Every day we speak around 16,000 words but inside our minds we create tens of thousands. 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 judgmental opinions of our inner voices. Drawing on than 20 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 selves, 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. Susan David has a PhD in psychology and a postdoctorate 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 been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Time and The Wall Street Journal. Born in South Africa, Susan now lives in Boston with her family. Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
If you want a book to help you thrive in the uncertainty of life, and be true to your beliefs and values, then this is a book you must read. The book provides great insight and practical guidance to help you grow in life. To allow you to acknowledge and Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life This book is just fabulous. It is full of lightbulb moments when you realise the reasons you act or think like you do, and how you can think about situations differently. From “awfulizing” to “hook” emotions, there are so many “yes that’s me” moments. It is Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life I came across Susan David's work while I was studying for a Master, having already read a lot on Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Goleman among others). Having gone myself through a very tough time in terms of stress and, some work on emotional intelligence and dealing with Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
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There is so much about this book that I love, it is one I will re read and highlight as there is so much to learn from it. I’m so grateful to have been introduced to ‘emotional agility’ and the wonderful work of Susan’s. It is such a helpful, interesting and enlightening Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life Easy to read, full of important info! Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life I actually ordered this book a while ago, but just completed my second read through and felt compelled to leave a review. After listening to Susan David on a podcast, I became interested in her stance on how we deal with our feelings and decided to buy this book. Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life I decided to stop reading after chapter four. I feel sad about this because I had high expectations of the content. The title captured me from the moment I saw it. The first chapter kept me reading because I could relate to the messages that promised to be the essence Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life There’s so many helpful bits to this book, gives you hope in the areas of life which are hard. Helps give a different perspective to challenges and looking at something through a different lens. I’ve learnt lots and I keep coming back to this because it encourages me to Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life