How to nurture your “emotional agility” (with Susan David)

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  Ted audio collective.

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  You'Re listening to how to be a better human.

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  I am your host, Chris Duffy.

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  I like to think that I am a pretty emotional person, right?

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  I'm certainly not one of those guys that's always all stoic, all stiff upper lip, right.

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  The only acceptable place to display emotions is when I'm watching football.

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  That is certainly not me.

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  That is not me at all.

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  But that does mean that sometimes I can get stuck in my feet feelings, or I can overemphasize positive thinking, always looking for a silver lining, when maybe there is not a silver lining there.

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  I sometimes wonder if I would be the person on the deck of the Titanic looking around and going, well, on the bright side, we are getting to experience history firsthand, and that's not ideal.

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  I think that's probably not ideal.

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  That's why I am so excited about today's guest psychologist, Susan David.

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  For years, she has been teaching people that the way that we navigate our internal worlds, our everyday thoughts, our emotions, our self stories, that the way that we navigate those, it determines our success in life.

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  I loved her book Emotional agility.

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  Get unstuck, embrace change, and thrive and work in life.

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  And I am so excited for you to hear our conversation that we have on the show today.

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  Here's Susan David.

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  Hi, I'm Susan David.

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  I'm a psychologist, and I'm the author of the book Emotional agility.

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  I guess my first question, which obviously, I think I have a little bit more of a sneak peek behind the curtain than other people, but what is emotional agility?

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