2017-06-19
1 小时 1 分钟Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life.
And so if we can, instead of pushing aside our difficult emotions and instead recognize this, that our emotions are often beacons of things that we care about, that we can look at our emotions with courage, with compassion, which is really important, and with curiosity, then what we can often do is we can start making choices that are difficult but values aligned.
Today's guest, Susan David, is an award winning psychologist.
He's on the faculty of Harvard Med School, co founder and co director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, CEO of Evidence based Psychology, and the author of a massively best selling book called Emotional Agility.
I wanted to sit down with her.
Her, because emotion is at the heart of so much of what drives us, especially all these hidden drivers, things that control to a certain extent or make us feel like we're being controlled by this sort of below the radar impulses.
And Susan is somebody who has devoted an incredible amount of time to researching what's really going on here when we move out into the world and build the things we want to build, interact with people, and what are the hidden drivers?
The emotional drivers, how do we handle ourselves emotionally and cognitively when we bump up against incredible challenge in our lives?
So I'm really excited to share this deep diving conversation.
We also really explore her journey from South Africa, what it was like growing up there, and her journey to the United States, and what led to that adventure.
Really excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So, as we sit here, you are about six months post the release of a pretty powerful and interesting book, which man is so relevant to the times.
And I want to get into some of the ideas in that book, but as people, I'm sure, can hear, your accent is not Brooklyn.
It is not Brooklyn.
It is a very unique combination of South Africa, New Zealand, Australia.
I now live in Boston, where I'm a co founder of the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School.
And I also have two years of backpacking accent thrown in there.
Okay, what's a backpacking accent?
Backpacking accent is where you pick up a backpack and you go traveling for two years, and you go to India, Nepal, Kashmir, and along the way, you get twangs.