Emotional success : the power of gratitude, compassion, and pride

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A pioneering psychologist reveals how three emotions can provide the surest, quickest route to success in any realm. A string of bestsellers have alerted us to the importance of grit - an ability to persevere and control one's impulses that is so closely associated with greatness. But no book yet has charted the most accessible and powerful path to grit: our prosocial emotions. These feelings - gratitude, compassion and pride - are easier to gene...

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Compassion

Emotional intelligence

Emotions

Gratitude

Positive psychology

Pride and vanity

Success Psychological aspects

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ISBN:

9781328505934
9780544703100
1328505936
0544703103

Description:

viii, 227 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

"An Eamon Dolan book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-220) and index

Contents:

Introduction: Self-control, success, and the road not taken
Setting the stage. The problem: why and how we all devalue the future ; The problem with the solution: why willpower, executive function, and reason set you up for failure
The emotional toolbox. Gratitude is about the future, not the past ; Compassion builds inner strength and inner peace ; Pride and perseverance
Value added. Being social means being successful ; Scaling out: reaching high means reaching out ; Scaling up: stimulating societal success

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2375047

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