Here are our top picks for books you might enjoy this month.
by Susan David PhD.
Emotional Agility is a practical, science-backed guide to looking inward and living intentionally.
Susan David PhD, a psychologist and faculty member at Harvard Medical School,signpostsapathwayto make peace with our inner self, achieve our most valued goals and live life to the fullest.
By urging us to workwith-not against -our own emotions, Susan David gives us the tools we need to be more adaptable and more resilient.
The author tempers formal neuroscientific knowledge with personal anecdotal evidence and teaches the importance of emotional literacy as the foundation for emotional agility. Susan David acknowledges the benefits of sadness, anger, guilt, and fear, and then shows us how to make sure they don’t take over our lives. Her quest is to better align how we feel with what we do. Drawing on her work as one of the leading researchers on the science of emotions, David writes with authority, compassion and insight.
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‘An accessible, reader-friendly voyage. Emotional Agility can be helpful to anyone.’ Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
Find out more and order your copy on the author’s website.
by Profession Steve Peters
Author of one of our favourite books, The Chimp Paradox, Prof Steve Peters, explains neuroscience in straightforward terms with his Chimp Management Mind Model. This latest publication from Prof Peters is a structured, practical self-development programme to help you attain psychological health and wellbeing.
He encourages us to develop “psychological mindedness”, as a tool to understand, not what happens, but how we respond, from the perspective of our own unique mind. Using the eight steps of the model, we learn how to programme our own minds to switch off from unhelpful thinking patterns and focus on what we need to do in the moment.
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Find out more and order your copy on the author’s website.