Susan David - Emotional Agility • The Tyranny Of Positivity • Understanding Guilt & Shame
Episode 243
Susan David, Ph.D. (IG: @susandavid_phd), is an award-winning Psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School; co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital; and CEO of Evidence Based Psychology, a boutique business consultancy. She is the author of the new #1 Wall Street Journal best-selling book Emotional Agility.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Growing up in Apartheid South Africa
- Being the master of being ok
- Writing/journaling like nobody's reading it
- Are you bottling emotions?
- Stop brooding
- Showing up to our emotions
- Difficult emotions serve a purpose
- Understanding the difference between guilt & shame
- Anger often comes about when something important to you is being blocked
- Acceptance is the prerequisite of change
- Creating space between the thinker and the thought
- Stop identifying your whole self with an emotion
- Emotion granularity
- Our stories don't always serve us
- Human beings are drawn to stories, familiarity, & coherence
- Values are qualities of action
- The most fundamental protector of our health and wellbeing
- Social contagion and how to protect yourself from it
- The problem with "have to" goals
- The tyranny of positivity
- Depression is the single leading cause of disability, globally
- People with goals around happiness become less happy and less resilient over time
- There's a time to grit and a time to quit
- Raising emotionally agile children
- 4 key ideas of emotional agility
- All emotions are transient
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Related links:
Susan David - Emotional Agility (book)
Susan David's website
The Emotional Agility Quiz
Follow Susan David on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
The New York Times - Teaching Your Child Emotional Agility featuring Susan David
James Pennebaker (books)
Viktor Frankl (books)
Published on 7 years, 5 months ago