Emotional Success Audiobook by David DeSteno
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Title: Emotional Success
Subtitle: The Motivational Power of Gratitude, Compassion and Pride
Author: David DeSteno
Narrator: Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-11-18
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration
Publisher's Summary:
David DeSteno's Emotional Success is an exploration of harnessing the practical power of using positive emotion to impact decision making. Current models promote suppressing emotion and using willpower as a means of self-control which, DeSteno argues, is not viable in the long term. With comparisons to well-known studies and a balance of hard research and popular culture examples, Emotional Success calls for a paradigm shift in the way in which we talk about the effect of responding emotionally.
Presented in four sections that pull together cutting-edge research from his own Northeastern University lab, DeSteno explores the benefit of promoting the prosocial emotions of gratitude, compassion and pride. Trying to balance and control emotions by using cognitive strategies is complicated and often ineffective in the long term, but building decisions based on an emotional response is in alignment with a 'gut feeling'.
In a similar way to how the zeitgeist has looked to mindfulness as a means by which to negotiate the information overload of modern life, learning to use emotion as a response toolkit is an essential way to achieve rational decision making with a real long-term impact.
Members Reviews:
Behavior Change that Works
For centuries, we have known about the tug of war between emotions and reason. In the ancient play Medea by Euripides, Medea says, âI am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.â
We still engage in this conflict. We make New Years resolutions, we commit to lose weight, to exercise more, to learn new skills, to be a better person. And yet we continue to rely on and believe that reason, our rational, logical brain can decide on and control our behavior.
In his book, Emotional Success, author David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University delves deep into the science around this natural conflict.
In the book, Dr. DeSteno shows the two different approaches to self-control. The one most often used is what he calls top down â where we try to rely on logic and reasoning, ârequiring constant cognitive vigilance to overcome temptations and correct behavior.â Just like Medea, this rarely works. It requires too much effort and ignores our emotional drives.
The second approach is what he terms bottom up, ârequiring the simple feeling of specific emotions. When we evoke these most basic building blocks of virtue â compassion, gratitude and pride â self-control along with other social virtues, automatically blossoms. This offers key insights into how we grow psychology grow.â
Dr. DeSteno builds a strong case for using the three emotions â gratitude, compassion and pride â to help us achieve our goals. He cites dozens of psychological studies â some his own, most from other researchers. The case studies are interesting â some fascinating â and informative.
The book is a quick, easy read. If the book only provided the theory, it would be interesting but not particularly helpful. Thankfully, there are specific steps the reader can take to incorporate these lessons into their life.
Experience has shown that knowledge or rational thinking does not lead to behavior change. We need to engage the emotions.
