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Shift: How to manage your emotions so they don't manage you

ISBN 
9781785044601
Format 
Trade Paperback
Recommended Price 
R430.00
Published 
February 2025
About the book: 
Whether it’s anxiety about the dentist, boiling rage when we’re stuck in traffic or devastation after a painful break-up, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiralling. But as difficult as our emotions can be, they are also a superpower. When they’re activated in the right ways and at the right time, they function like an immune system, alerting us to our surroundings, telling us how to react to a situation and helping us make the right choices.
 
But how do we make our emotions work for us rather than against us? Acclaimed psychologist Dr Ethan Kross has devoted his scientific career to answering this question. In Shift, he dispels common myths – for instance, that avoidance is toxic or that we
should always strive to live in the moment – and provides a new framework for shifting our emotions so they don’t take over our lives.
 
Shift weaves groundbreaking research with riveting stories of people struggling and succeeding to manage their emotions – from a mother whose fear prompted her to make a spur-of-the-moment decision that would save her daughter’s life mid-flight to a nuclear code-carrying Navy SEAL who learned how to embrace both joy and pain during a hellish training activity. Dr Kross shows us that we already have access to a wide array of tools and demonstrates how to harness them to be healthier and more successful.
 
Filled with actionable advice, cutting-edge research and inspiring stories, Shift puts the power back into our hands, so we can control our emotions without them controlling us – and help others do the same.
About the Author

Ethan Kross is one of the world's leading experts on emotion regulation. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Department of Psychology and its Ross School of Business, he is the director of the  Emotion & Self Control Laboratory.  Ethan has participated in policy discussions at the  White House,  spoken at  TED  and  SXSW,  and consulted with some of the world’s top executives and organisations. He has been interviewed on  CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle,  and  NPR's Morning Edition.  His pioneering research has been featured in  The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New England Journal of Medicine,  and  Science.  He completed his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD at Columbia University.

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