How to not get hooked by your thoughts. Loved this book, what I needed right now.

Parts I liked about reading this book: it was fun as she talked about different aspects of emotional agility to check in and see which parts I’m doing well and which parts I can work on. Really like when she used exercises/examples to help practice what she was speaking about. Parts I didn’t like: each chapter was so different that it was hard to bring it all together. Also that I was forced to read for this for school as opposed to choosing to read it lol. My biggest takeaways from reading will be making more time to journal again, trying to break the connection that some emotions are negative, and working to make small positive changes when I am in situations I do not like.

Read this during graduate school for couple and family therapy and it literally changed my life.

There were MANY parts of this book that I genuinely treasured. I appreciated the research focus of the concepts David explores, and there are great suggestions on how to boost your own emotional agility. And yet... hoo boy, did I struggle to get into this book. It just didn't hold my attention.

An excellent look into how to be more emotionally agile. The author, Susan David, shares from her treasure trove of research as well as from her own life making the information accessible and easy to comprehend. Emotional agility is a much needed strength that is too often overlooked in pursuit of harder skills. It's the soft skills that often impact us, and those around us, the most.

The audiobook is a bit awkward because her cadence is unusual and a little jarring. But, the content is worthwhile.

*Audiobook listen*

I would liken this to a simplified version of the book called “Permission to Feel” (can’t remember the author’s name at this moment. It’s a really good introductory read for those who want to step into the emotional development world.

I cannot disagree with anything she says. However, since this is not my first book I read about emotions, I find the content quite generic. I would rather read 100 concrete examples of how to face real world challenges instead of reading the obvious generalities.