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Books can provide valuable information and advice, they can give us new insights, they can encourage. But knowledge alone is not enough to change us.
“Too much stress on being positive is just one more way our culture figuratively overmedicates the normal fluctuations of our emotions, just the way society often literally overmedicates rambunctious children and women with mood swings.”
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
“didn’t make me grieve any less, but it allowed me to move through the trauma. It also showed me the power of facing into, rather than trying to avoid, difficult emotions, and it put me on the career path I have followed ever since.”
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
“We then accept these persuasive self-accounts without question, as if they were the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. These are stories that, regardless of their veracity, may have been scribbled on our mental chalkboards in third grade, or even before we could walk or talk.”
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
“Make the endings a normal occurrence and a normal part of business and life, instead of seeing it as a problem.”
― Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
― Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
“One recent study found the effect of multitasking on people’s performance was actually comparable to driving drunk. Other studies show that low-grade daily stress (from the lunch box that needs to be filled at the last minute, the cell phone battery that dies right as you need to get on a critical conference call, the train that’s always running late, the looming pile of bills) can prematurely age brain cells by as much as a decade.”
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
Eryn’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Eryn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
564 books
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4 friends
4,238 books
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103 friends
282 books
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28 friends
67 books
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4 friends
25 books
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4 friends
706 books
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18 friends
509 books
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28 friends
541 books
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29 friends
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