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“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.”
― Susan David, 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.”
― Susan David, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

“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.”
― Susan David, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

“But emotional agility isn’t beneficial just for people struggling with personal difficulties.”
― Susan David, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life