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:

Anytime there are gaps in our knowledge, fear fills in those gaps – a fear that overshadows the possibility of a payoff.

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Emotional Agility:

Fear of success, or fear of even being ‘okay’ can lead to self-sabotage…

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Emotional Agility:

..self-sabotaging responses… will continue until we… show up, step out, and take agency of our own lives.

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Emotional Agility:

…if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.

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Emotional Agility:

To stay truly alive, we need to choose courage over comfort so that we keep growing, climbing, and challenging ourselves…

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Emotional Agility:

Effortful learning means mindful engagement that continues to expand the boundaries and increase the sophistication of one’s knowledge and experience.

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Emotional Agility:

…the right amount of stress – whelmed but not overwhelmed – can be a great motivator.

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Emotional Agility:

To keep growing, you need to be open to the unfamiliar, even the uncomfortable. And leaning in to your uncomfortable emotions allows you to learn from them.

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Emotional Agility:

Grit… passion and sustained persistence in trying to achieve a goal over the long haul, with no particular concern for rewards or recognition along the way.

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Emotional Agility:

If you were going to die this evening, what would you most regret not having said?

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