Emotional Equations: Simple formulas to help your life work better - Softcover

Conley, Chip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749956305 ISBN 13: 9780749956301

Publisher: Piatkus Books, 2012

Synopsis

In this age of uncertainty, many people feel like they're clinging to a dinghy amidst a perfect storm. But successful entrepreneur Chip Conley has discovered that by using simple word equations, it's easy to build the grit, insight, stamina and joy that allow us to become our best, highest-functioning selves. Joy = Love - Fear Anxiety = Uncertainty x Powerlessness Conley's equations are a simple yet profound way to help your emotions work for you. They are mantras that we can turn to for stability in times of uncertainly, reminding us to focus on the things we can change ('the variables') and leave the others ('the constants') alone. Given the complex times we live in, people are looking for ways to distill some basic truths in life. Emotional Equations is a new, visual lexicon for mastering the age of uncertainty.

About this title

About the Author

Chip Conley is the author of PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow (Jossey-Bass, 2007) and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, America's second largest boutique hotel company. He has presented the ideas in this book at a TED conference address in 2010.

From the Back Cover

What if an equation could help you understand and even master what you're experiencing right now?

In this age of uncertainty, many people feel like they're clinging to a dinghy amidst a perfect storm. But successful entrepreneur Chip Conley has discovered that by using simple word equations, it's easy to build the grit, insight, stamina and joy that allow us to become our best, highest-functioning selves.

Joy = Love - Fear

Anxiety = Uncertainty x Powerlessness

Conley's equations are a simple yet profound way to help your emotions work for you. They are mantras that we can turn to for stability in times of uncertainty, reminding us to focus on the things we can change ('the variables') and leave the others ('the constants') alone.

Emotional Equations is a new, visual lexicon for creating hope, simplicity and happiness in today's world.

'Emotional Equations is a fresh, original guide to an authentic and fulfilling life. Every line is based on good science and lived experience and rings truthful and invigorating. There ought to be a law against successful CEOs writing such good books . . . where does that leave the rest of us?' - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow

'Emotional Equations offers a splendid menu of rules-of-thumb for a satisfied, meaningful life. Chip Conley has tried what he advises; his equations to live by are clever, useful, and profound'

Daniel Goleman, author Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence

'Emotional Equations is a fresh, original guide to an authentic and fulfilling life' Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow

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Websites: www.chipconley.com

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Edition details

• Publisher: Piatkus Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749956305
• ISBN 13: 9780749956301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288