Emotional Equations Quotes

“Anxiety = Uncertainty x Powerlessness”
― Chip Conley, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

“Joy = Love - Fear”
― Chip Conley, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

“Curiosity = Wonder + Awe”
― Chip Conley, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

“This equation has helped many people I know identify the difference between practicing happiness and pursuing it. When my happiness feels elusive, I tend to ask myself, “What am I not being grateful for, and what am I pursuing that’s distracting me from that gratitude?”
― Chip Conley, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

“EVENT + REACTION = OUTCOME Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn’t the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it’s our beliefs that create our response.”
― Chip Conley, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

“Think of your emotions as messages that give you the freedom, rather than the obligation, to respond. Fear protects. Regret teaches. Sadness releases. Joy uplifts. Empathy unites. Emotions”
― Chip Conley, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

“As Viktor Frankl wrote, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” You have the power to choose how you respond. You are a product of your decisions, not your conditions. In”
― Chip Conley, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

“Economic gloom lightens your wallet while weighing down your spirit. Five of the ten most stressful life events are related to whether you are employed and whether the quality of your work experience is good. Your work does more than affect your self-esteem; it organizes your day, connects you with others, and can give you a sense of purpose. Not”
― Chip Conley, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

“Mark Twain didn’t dabble in psychological focus groups, but he certainly knew something about human nature when he wrote, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” A series of surveys explored the premise that time is an important variable in this equation. Researchers asked a random sampling of people, “When you look back on your experiences in life and think of those things that you regret, what would you say you regret more, those things that you did, but wish you hadn’t, or those things that you didn’t do, but wish you had?” The results found that regrettable “failures to act” outnumbered “regrettable actions” by a two-to-one margin and that this was true for both sexes.”
― Chip Conley, Emotional Equations: Simple formulas to help your life work better

“That may seem like a brain tease, but think of it this way: “Wanting What You Have” is like practicing gratitude. It means appreciating the good fortune in your life. “Having What You Want,” to me, means that you are pursuing something that will give you gratification, potentially to the neglect of what you already have. In other words, The”
― Chip Conley, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

“Wanting What You Have” is like practicing gratitude. It means appreciating the good fortune in your life. “Having What You Want,” to me, means that you are pursuing something that will give you gratification, potentially to the neglect of what you already have.”
― Chip Conley, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

“Gravity can also shape our emotional selves. Emotional baggage, for instance, is a form of gravity; we acquire more of it as we get older, and it weighs us down. The more emotional gravity we’re fighting, the more force we require to move forward. And force moving against gravity creates a lot of friction. On”
― Chip Conley, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success