How to Develop Emotional Agility, with Dr. Susan David

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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#230: Dr. Susan David, a psychologist on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, joins us to talk about emotional agility. Dr. David has researched emotional agility for around 20 years. A few years ago, she summarized her work on this concept for the Harvard Business Review. Her article became one of the most popular articles of the year, and the publishers heralded it as the Management Idea of the Year. Dr. David gave a TED talk on emotional agility, which went viral, gaining more than a million views. She then published a book called Emotional Agility which became a #1 Wall Street Journal Best Seller. The concept of emotional agility won the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award. She’s provided consulting around this concept with clients that include the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the NASDAQ, Google, and Microsoft. She joins us today to explain how to define emotional agility, how to develop it in your life, and how it applies to any goal that you want to pursue - whether that’s financial independence, early retirement, career advancement, or greater success in your health and your relationships. For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode230 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can afford anything, just not everything.
0:10.6	Every decision that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just
0:13.8	apply to your money.
0:14.8	That applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention, anything in your life
0:18.5	that's a scarce or limited resource.
0:20.6	And that leads to two questions.
0:22.2	Number one, what's your why?
0:23.8	What do you value the most?
0:25.4	Number two, how do you align your daily decisions to reflect those values?
0:30.0	Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice.
0:32.7	And that's what this podcast is here to explore.
0:35.0	My name is Paula Pan.
0:36.0	I'm the host of the Affordable Care Podcast.
0:38.2	And today, Dr. Susan David joins us to talk about emotional agility.
0:43.3	Dr. David is a psychologist on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.
0:47.5	For the past 20 years, she's been researching and refining the principles around a concept
0:52.3	called emotional agility.
0:54.4	A few years ago, she published some of those findings in an article that appeared in Harvard
0:58.1	Business Review.
0:59.6	And the publishers, in turn, heralded it as the management idea of the year.
1:04.8	She subsequently gave a TED Talk on the same topic, which went viral with over a million
1:08.8	views and published a book called emotional agility, which became a number one Wall Street
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