Susan David, Ph.D.: Cultivating Resilience and Emotional Agility

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

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🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Guest: Susan David, Ph.D. is a Psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School; resilience expert, co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, CEO of Evidence Based Psychology, and author of Emotional Agility.Story: Growing up in South Africa, Susan lost her father at a young age. During this pivotal time, everyday heroes emerged in her life, helping to guide her through her grief as an experience of resilience and emotional agility. This became the foundation of her quest to understand and improve the human condition.Susan David resilienceBig idea(s): Instead of simply "pushing through" to positivity, there are practical ways that we can be with ourselves and our emotions that begin to activate our readiness potential, goal setting, and capability to make real change in our lives. Our emotions have evolved to help us survive in the world. If we push them aside, we lose our ability to respond effectively. Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is being able to notice your fear and your disquiet and chose the right thing to do, in alignment with your values.You’d never guess: How Susan’s teacher’s "intervention" sparked her entire career and ultimately helped form her view of herself as resilient and capable in the world.Current passion project: Researching and teaching others about our emotions, hidden drivers, and below-the-radar impulses, and how they Ȋcontrolȋ us when we interact with the world and others around us.Rockstar sponsors/supporters:Camp GLP - Register by June 28, 2017 and lock in your $100 discount. After that registration returns to full-price. And, more important, we don't have a lot of spots left, so there is a decent change we will sell soon and have no spots left at any price. So, come grab your spot now! http://goodlifeproject.com/camp/

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0:00.0	This comfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life.
0:07.9	And so if we can instead of pushing aside our difficulty emotions and instead recognize
0:14.0	this that our emotions often beacons of things that we care about, that we can look at our
0:21.0	emotions with courage, with compassion, which is really important and with curiosity,
0:27.8	and what we can often do is we can start making choices that are difficult, but values aligned.
0:36.8	Today's guest, Susan David, is an award-winning psychologist. He's on the faculty of Harvard
0:41.8	Mid School, co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital,
0:48.0	CEO of Evidence-Based Psychology, and the author of a massively best-selling book called
0:54.5	Emotional Agility. I wanted to sit down with her because emotion has at the heart of so much
1:01.0	of what drives us, especially all these hidden drivers, things that control to a certain
1:07.0	extent or make us feel like we're being controlled by this sort of, you know, like, below the radar
1:13.8	impulses. And Susan is somebody who has devoted an incredible amount of time to researching what's
1:21.2	really going on here. When we move into the world, then build the things we want to build, interact
1:25.9	with people, and what are the hidden drivers, the emotional drivers? How do we handle ourselves
1:31.3	emotionally and cognitive when we bump up against incredible challenge in our lives? So I'm really
1:36.5	excited to share this deep-diving conversation. We also really explore her journey from South Africa,
1:41.8	what it was like growing up there and her journey to the United States and what led to that adventure.
1:48.8	Really excited to share this conversation with you. I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project.
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