Emotional Agility

When you automatically respond in whatever unhelpful way you do, you’re hooked.

5. Stepping Out

So, in the interest of your emotional agility, here’s my advice: keep your eyes on your own work.

In the same way, anger can be a sign that something that matters to you is being threatened.

But while worry looks forward, brooding looks back – an even more pointless exercise. Brooders lose perspective as molehills become mountains and slights become capital crimes.

example, sadness differs from boredom, or pity, or loneliness, or nervousness – do much, much better at managing the ups and downs of ordinary existence than those who see everything in black and white.

our life satisfaction in the face of inevitable worries, regrets and sad experiences depends not so much on how many of these things we experience, or even their intensity, but on the way we deal with them.

2. Get contradictory.

Thoughts and emotions contain information, not directions.