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What Difficult Emotions Are Trying to Tell You | Christine vs. Work
What Difficult Emotions Are Trying to Tell You | Christine vs. Work 1 May 2020 --- ๐๐ช๐๐จ๐๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ผ๐จ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐ค๐๐๐ฎ! โจ https://www.youtube.com/c/HBRAscend โจ Emotions are running raw during the pandemic. How should we manage our difficult feelings, especially at work? Weeks of social distancing have fueled a collective emotional rollercoaster of anxiety, stress, frustration, and fear. How can we better manage our emotions as individuals? How emotionally vulnerable canโor shouldโwe be at work? Especially during this crisis, resilient and compassionate emotional intelligence with our colleagues is more essential than ever. Susan David, a Harvard Medical School psychologist and author of โEmotional Agilityโ, offers a helpful approach on how to manage difficult emotionsโin life and at workโduring this challenging time. Tips for managing difficult emotions: 1. Permit yourself to experience the emotionโitโs a normal response. Openly recognize what youโre feeling, practice โgentle acceptanceโ that itโs happening, and then respond to that emotion with an open attitude. Let go of what you cannot control. 2. Extend compassion to yourself and to others. Be patient and try to understand the full reality of the situation. Be kind, loving, and courageous. 3. Recognize that difficult emotions are clear signposts to your beliefs and values. Interpret your feelings, even if itโs uncomfortable, to pinpoint whatโs most important for you at this time. Learn more about Susan David: http://susandavid.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the worldโs organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us โ employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect โ would be better off. So we try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work. We enlist the foremost experts in a wide range of topics, including career planning, strategy, leadership, work-life balance, negotiations, innovation, and managing teams. Harvard Business Review empowers professionals around the world to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review #emotions #anxiety #psychology โ โ โ โ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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