Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's

most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that

you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

We want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and

behave and we want you to become a better thinker.

If you're new to the show, we've got episodes with spies and CEOs, athletes and authors,

thinkers and performers, as well as toolboxes for skill sets like negotiation, public speaking,

body language, persuasion and more.

So if you're smart and you like to learn and improve, you'll be right at home here with

us.

Today, friend of the show, Dr. Susan David is back.

I love her work on emotional agility.

I think it's absolutely brilliant and answers questions like, why do we have emotions

in the first place?

Obviously if they're unreliable, we know from science that they are incredibly unreliable.

So what do they do for us?

She also answers, why we're usually running on autopilot.

And in what ways does this harm our ability to interact with others, move ahead in our

careers, this autopilot mode even causes our selves damage.

We'll also learn how stress prematurely ages our brains, why positive thinking not

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