Book Titles

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

By Susan David

Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1592409495
Categories: Agile, Emotional Intelligence

92 Quotes Found

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Emotional Agility:

Emotional agility is a process that allows you to be in the moment, changing or maintaining your behaviors to live in ways that align with your intentions and values.

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Emotional Agility:

The ultimate goal of emotional agility is to keep a sense of challenge and growth alive well throughout your life.

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Emotional Agility:

…the mind creates its own universe; but no, we can’t solve our problems through affirmations and positive thinking alone.

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Emotional Agility:

The freshest and most interesting solutions often come when we embrace ‘the beginner’s mind,’ approaching novel experiences with fresh eyes.

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Emotional Agility:

The problem with bottling is that ignoring troubling emotions doesn’t get at the root of whatever is causing them.

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Emotional Agility:

…rigid postures stop us from being agile when we need to deal with life’s stressors.

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Emotional Agility:

The paradox of happiness is that deliberately striving for it is fundamentally incompatible with the nature of happiness itself.

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Emotional Agility:

Our raw feelings can be the messengers we need to teach us things about ourselves and can prompt insights into important life directions.

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Emotional Agility:

One study showed that students who expressed benign envy toward a more successful student showed greater motivation than those who expressed admiration.

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Emotional Agility:

…one of the lessons conveyed in myth after myth is that trying to dodge the things we’re most afraid of is a very bad idea.

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