Developing Emotional Agility with Susan David
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The way we navigate our inner thoughts in our everyday lives is the most important factor of our life success. Susan David is an award-winning psychologist and author of Emotional Agility. In this episode, Susan touches on the powerful process found within her book, which ultimately leads us to accept the existence of our circumstances and allows us to adapt and thrive in life regardless of who we are or whatever we face.
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| 0:00.0 | Another just very quick strategy is that often people will say things like, you know, I am sad. |
| 0:08.0 | I am being undermined in this meeting so I'm going to shut down. I am stressed and when you |
| 0:14.6 | say I am what it makes it sound is as if you are the emotion you know I am sad all of me 100% of me is sad and you can see that in this |
| 0:27.9 | context then there's no space between you and the emotion because you've made all of you the emotion. So a very practical |
| 0:36.1 | way that I teach my clients and I use in organizations is just name the thought emotion feeling for what it is. It's a |
| 0:45.5 | thought and it's an emotion or it's a feeling. It's not a directive to action. You know |
| 0:51.7 | who's in charge here, the thinker or the thought. So instead of saying I am sad, |
| 0:56.7 | I'm noticing the feeling that I'm sad. Instead of I am stressed, I'm noticing the feeling that I'm stressed. |
| 1:05.0 | It's so subtle, but what you're doing by prefixing, I am noticing the feeling, |
| 1:10.6 | I'm noticing the thought, you're naming them for what they are, is you're creating |
| 1:14.6 | critical space between you and created insanely |
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