Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

by Susan David

one of the great paradoxes of human experience is that we can’t change ourselves or our circumstances until we accept what exists right now. Acceptance is a prerequisite for change.

Compassion gives us the freedom to redefine ourselves as well as the all-important freedom to fail, which contains within it the freedom to take the risks that allow us to be truly creative.

One of the greatest human triumphs is to choose to make room in our hearts for both the joy and the pain, and to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

according to projections, 65 percent of today’s elementary-school-age kids may end up doing work that hasn’t even been invented yet,

Another unintended consequence of overparenting is that kids can grow up thinking that their parents’ love is conditional on their behaving a certain way. This leads to contingent self-esteem, the belief that their worth must be earned.