Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

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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. Read more

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Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Avery; First Edition (September 6, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1592409490
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 95
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.2 x 1 x 9.3 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #20,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #27 in Popular Applied Psychology #62 in Popular Psychology Personality Study #79 in Emotional Self Help
• #27 in Popular Applied Psychology
• #62 in Popular Psychology Personality Study