Gabby

“When you can fix what’s wrong—break up with the unfaithful partner or leave the demoralizing job—recasting the negative emotions into positive ones can prolong suffering.”
― Ethan Kross, Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You

“Morality is mostly about how you pay attention to others. Moral behavior happens continuously throughout the day, even during the seemingly uneventful and everyday moments.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“He knows that success, in this moment or any, is not about turning his emotions off; it’s about understanding how to use emotions skillfully without letting them completely take over. And that’s a critically important insight because experiencing emotions for humans is like breathing air: Our emotions are both unavoidable and crucial to our survival.”
― Ethan Kross, Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You

“Disrupting a cascade of negative emotions by distracting is only one way you can use your cognitive control system.”
― Ethan Kross, Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You