Practicing Emotional Wisdom
How to Deal With Despair and Find Happiness
Thich Nhat Hanh emphasizes that while suffering is inevitable, finding happiness is essential, and entrepreneur Chip Conley suggests that increasing meaning in life through gratitude can help cope with despair and enhance emotional well-being.
How to Cope With — and Learn From — Your Anxiety
In a lesson inspired by Pixar's Inside Out, entrepreneur Chip Conley emphasizes that observing and naming emotions, especially anxiety, can help individuals regain control by understanding their emotional habits through a structured approach to managing uncertainty and powerlessness.
How to Manage the Narcissists in Your Life
In a video lesson, entrepreneur Chip Conley discusses how to help narcissists overcome their self-absorption and entitlement by fostering compassion and encouraging new habits that prioritize others over themselves.
How to Lead Better With Emotional Intelligence
In a video lesson, entrepreneur Chip Conley emphasizes the importance of emotional intelligence (EQ) over intelligence (IQ) in leadership, highlighting how recognizing achievements and fostering positive emotions can enhance decision-making and company culture, especially during challenging times.
How to Support Your Employees’ Needs and Help Them Live Up to Their Potential
Chip Conley’s three-tiered Self-Actualization Pyramid emphasizes the importance of fostering peak experiences for employees, helping them transition from mere jobs to meaningful careers, ultimately enhancing organizational performance by addressing their survival, success, and transformation needs.
Emotions can be overwhelming. But Chip Conley says (simple!) math can help you analyze them: Think of your emotions in terms of equations. Doing so can help you recognize the variables you can adjust and the constants beyond your control.
Learning Objectives
- Understand and manage variable aspects of your emotions.
- Deconstruct issues that cause anxiety.
- Redirect yourself and others out of self-absorption.
- Shift the energy of your team toward the positive.
- Create peak experiences for your direct reports.