Susan David: The gift and power of emotional courage
Susan David: El don y el poder del coraje emocional
Susan David, a Harvard Medical School psychologist, studies emotional agility: the psychology of how we can use emotion to bring forward our best selves in all aspects of how we love, live, parent and lead. Full bio
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intention behind the word
ceñida a esta palabra
literally translated means,
traducido literalmente significa,
I bring you into being."
te traigo a la existencia."
being greeted like that.
in the way we see ourselves?
en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos,
nuestras emociones e historias
más complejo y cargado?
and fraught world?
at the center of my life's work.
en el centro del trabajo de mi vida
with our inner world drives everything.
nuestro mundo interno lo impulsa todo:
of emotions as good or bad,
como buenas o malas,
of complexity is toxic.
frente a la complejidad.
of emotional agility
de agilidad emocional
y para prosperar.
sagrados de una universidad
of a university,
y tierno ámbito de la vida.
of apartheid South Africa,
del apartheid de Sudáfrica,
committed to not seeing.
comprometidos a no ver.
of racist legislation possible
50 años de legislación racista
that they are doing nothing wrong.
de que no están haciendo nada malo.
of the destructive power of denial
destructivo de la negación,
to the country of my birth.
al país de mi nacimiento.
and say goodbye to my father
a despedirme de mi padre
and walked the passage that ran through
y transité el pasillo que llegaba
my father lay dying of cancer.
mi padre yacía moribundo de cáncer.
but he knew I was there.
pero sabía que yo estaba allí.
to mathematics to history to biology,
a matemáticas, a historia, a biología,
I would shrug and say, "OK."
encogía los hombros diciendo: "Bien".
to keep his small business going
mantener su pequeño negocio
was grieving the love of her life
por el amor de su vida
and emotionally ravaged.
devastados financiera y emocionalmente.
isolated, fast.
sola, rápidamente.
para adormecer mi dolor.
the full weight of my grief.
todo el peso de mi dolor.
that values relentless positivity,
que valora la positividad implacable,
my story of triumph over grief.
mi historia de triunfo sobre el dolor.
me miraba con sus insistentes ojos azules
fixed me with burning blue eyes
para las tareas.
lo que estás sintiendo.
authentically to my grief and pain.
mi verdadera pena y dolor.
que una revolución para mí.
that started in this blank notebook
en este cuaderno en blanco
correspondence with myself.
y silenciosa conmigo misma.
the rigidity of denial
de la rigidez de la negación
from its fragility.
es inseparable de su fragilidad.
that we are unseen.
de que somos invisibles.
y un día nos damos cuenta
donde una vez estuvo ese niño,
where that child once was,
brings us to our knees.
que un diagnóstico nos doblega.
this frailty successfully or sustainably.
de manera exitosa o sostenible.
tells us that depression
nos dice que la depresión
of disability globally --
de discapacidad a nivel mundial,
political and economic change,
y económicos sin precedentes,
into rigid responses to their emotions.
en respuestas rígidas a sus emociones.
obsessively brood on our feelings.
en nuestros sentimientos,
dentro de nuestras cabezas,
de nuestra fuente de noticias.
bottle our emotions,
guardarnos nuestras emociones,
deemed legitimate.
consideradas legítimas.
with over 70,000 people,
a más de 70,000 personas,
so-called "bad emotions,"
por tener "malas emociones"
these feelings.
dejar de lado esos sentimientos.
a aquellos que amamos, a nuestros hijos.
like our children --
out of emotions seen as negative,
por tener emociones consideradas negativas
as inherently valuable.
como intrínsecamente valiosas.
are now seen as good or bad.
ahora son vistas como buenas o malas,
a new form of moral correctness.
en una nueva forma de rectitud moral.
to just stay positive.
les decimos que permanezcan positivas;
de estar tan enojadas.
or false positivity, it's this:
o la falsa positividad, es esta:
lesson we can learn
que podamos aprender
los casquetes de hielo,
emocional muestra
are pushed aside or ignored,
se hacen a un lado o se ignoran,
in the refrigerator --
de chocolate en la nevera,
of unwanted emotions when you ignore them,
de sus emociones indeseadas al ignorarlas
to embrace false positivity,
normales y acogemos una falsa positividad,
to deal with the world as it is,
habilidades para afrontar el mundo real
what they don't want to feel.
que no quieren sentir.
I don't want to feel disappointed."
sentirme decepcionada".
sentimiento desaparezca".
de una persona muerta".
by their feelings.
sus sentimientos indeseables.
that comes with failure.
que deviene al fracaso.
of our contract with life.
de nuestro contrato con la vida.
una carrera significativa
to a meaningful life.
a una vida significativa.
a desbaratar la rigidez
páginas en blanco,
que debía experimentar.
to what I did feel.
a abrirse a lo que sí sentía.
of all of our emotions --
de todas nuestras emociones,
to resilience, thriving,
y la prosperidad,
that just an acceptance of emotions.
que solo una aceptación de las emociones.
I found that words are essential.
que las palabras son esenciales.
to describe our feelings.
para describir nuestros sentimientos.
common one I hear.
entre el estrés y la decepción,
between stress and disappointment
of "I'm in the wrong career."
de "Estoy en la carrera equivocada".
nuestras emociones,
the precise cause of our feelings.
la causa exacta de nuestros sentimientos.
the readiness potential in our brain
la disposición potencial del cerebro
to take concrete steps.
tomar medidas concretas.
the right steps for us.
sino las correctas para nosotros.
to things that we care about.
sobre lo que nos importa.
anything in our worlds.
nada en nuestro mundo.
that you value equity and fairness --
de que valoran la equidad y la justicia
a las emociones difíciles,
to the difficult emotions,
that are values-aligned.
alineadas con nuestros valores.
they are not directives.
no son directrices.
our emotions for their values
nuestras emociones por sus valores
in his frustration with his baby sister --
en su frustración con su hermanita
that he gets to give her away
con su idea de regalársela
he sees in a shopping mall.
en el centro comercial.
ellas no nos poseen.
between how I feel in all my wisdom
lo que sentimos con toda nuestra sabiduría
alineada con nuestros valores,
hacia la mejor versión de nosotros
en la práctica?
salidas emocionales.
to the journal of your hearts.
miren el diario de sus corazones.
as in, "I'm angry" or "I'm sad."
como en "estoy enojada" o "estoy triste".
as if you are the emotion.
nosotros el sentimiento.
and the emotion is a data source.
y el sentimiento es una fuente de datos.
the feeling for what it is:
el sentimiento por lo que es:
u "observo que me siento enojada".
esenciales para todos,
en nuestros lugares de trabajo.
to bring the best of themselves to work,
a traer lo mejor de sí al trabajo,
to feel their emotional truth,
sentir sus verdaderos sentimientos,
flourish in the organization.
florecen en la organización.
dentro de ellas,
individuals, teams,
más ágiles y resistentes,
familias, comunidades,
to the normal human emotions.
a las emociones humanas normales.
towards my values?"
to be with your emotions
de tratar sus emociones
to take values-connected steps.
medidas alineadas con sus valores.
terrified by the idea of death.
with soft pats and kisses.
con besos y palmaditas suaves.
a buffer between me and reality.
la realidad para mí.
through those nights.
por esas noches.
is not an absence of fear;
no es ausencia de miedo;
is all too precious
de nosotros es muy precioso
sea un "sí" incondicional.
correspondence with your own heart.
correspondencia con su propio corazón,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Susan David - Psychologist, researcher, authorSusan David, a Harvard Medical School psychologist, studies emotional agility: the psychology of how we can use emotion to bring forward our best selves in all aspects of how we love, live, parent and lead.
Why you should listen
What does it take internally, in the way we deal with our thoughts, emotions and stories, for us to thrive in a complex and changing world? How we respond to these inner experiences drives our actions, careers, relationships, happiness, health -- everything that matters in our lives. Susan David became fascinated by this question through first-hand experience of loss and resilience, while growing up in a country in which hate was legislated: apartheid South Africa.
David holds a PhD in the psychology of emotions, is an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist, and is ranked as one of the world's leading management thinkers. Her #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Emotional Agility, describes the psychological skills critical to thriving in times of complexity and change. David is CEO of Evidence Based Psychology, on Harvard Medical School faculty, and a co-founder of the Institute of Coaching. Described as "a powerful speaker, visionary thinker and inspirational personality," she is an unwavering believer in the power of people to bring the best of who they are to themselves, their children, their organizations and their communities.
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