February 20, 2019

Susan David, Ph.D. - Emotional Agility

47 minutes

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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