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Have you watched Susan David’s TedTalk on The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage?
As she’s our July read in our book club The Collective Shelf, we thought sharing her talk could be a great way to introduce her to those that are yet to start her book Emotional Agility
In the talk, David questions how the way in which we control our inner world effects everything we do in life, explores the concepts of emotional rigidity and emotional agility, whilst telling the story of her younger self going through the grief of losing her father to cancer.
The golden take away I had from the video was that ”discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life” and I think that can be applied to both our personal life, but also on our journeys as portfolio professionals. What was your biggest take away?
To watch the talk for yourself, follow the link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDQ1Mi5I4rg
If you would like to join our book club, type The Collective Shelf into the search bar and join- it’s never too late! While you’re at it, sign up to our book club event on the 28th of July at 1pm, where we’ll be having an in-depth discussion into the book.
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Thanks for sharing, Ella 🙂 great video. My golden takeaways from the video are: ”I did away with feelings of what I should be experiencing and started to open my heart to what I felt” & ”courage is not the absence of fear, it is fear walking”.
It’s very easy to get caught up in what we think we should be feeling or experiencing when we often need to just accept and go through a particular emotion. Moments of difficulty can be the greatest teachers and we have to be present to learn a little bit more about who we are. Interesting to hear David refer to emotions as a ”data-point”, I don’t quite agree with that but I can see how that framing can be helpful when people are feeling emotionally overwhelmed.
Haven’t read her book but, from the sound of her TedTalk, I’m sure it will be a good read!
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Hi Jade, both such good quotes!! I completely agree about the expectations of feelings. Setting up those expectations of, ”when I get to point X I will feel accomplished/happy…” can definitely set people up for feelings of failure and disappointment. I love what you said about moments of difficulty being the greatest teachers- so important to remember!
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