Building Emotional Agility

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🗓️ 22 September 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Susan David, author of "Emotional Agility" and psychologist at Harvard Medical School, on learning to unhook from strong feelings.

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0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael. I'm here today with Susan David, Harvard Medical School
0:36.8	Psychologist and co-founder of the Institute for Coaching at McLean Hospital. She's
0:41.2	the author of the new book Emotional Agility and of the
0:44.3	HBR article of the same name. Susan, thanks you so much for coming in and
0:47.8	talking with us today. Thank you for having me. So I thought we should just
0:51.8	start out by talking a little bit about emotional agility, what it is,
0:56.1	how you got interested in it.
0:57.5	Is it the same thing as emotional intelligence?
0:59.6	Three questions in one, a good place to stop it. Sorry about that.
1:04.0	So how did I get interested in emotions and emotional agility?
1:08.0	My background is growing up in apartheid South Africa,
1:11.0	and from a very young age even though I am a white South
1:17.1	African and so wasn't subject to the same atrocities that my friends were, I really noticed around me a lot of chaos and cruelty.
1:27.7	And so from a very, very young age I became interested in this key idea of how is it that we deal with our thoughts and
1:35.4	emotions and the chaos and complexity and difficulty that is around us in a way
1:40.9	that might be productive, helpful and really congruent with what is effective from a well-being
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