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Emotional Agility 1) Which Three knowledge concepts, ideas and/or issues does your team think are the most important and why? A)It’s said that it’s better to let positive emotion out and keep your negative thoughts inside. But researches find that attempts to ignore or minimize internal emotions and thoughts only amplify them. Developing the emotional agility, an ability to manage one’s thoughts and feelings, may be more effective. It can help us reduce stress, become more creative and present better performance. B)How to develop your emotional agility 1.recognize your patterns Thinking becomes rigid and repetitive; the inner thoughts are like a rerun of past experience 2.Label your thoughts and emotions Help you clear your mind and figure out what your inner experience really are; improve behavior and well-being, promotes beneficial biological changes in the brain 3.Accept your thoughts and emotions Though it might make you feel upset bur it also brings relief and help you realize what’s really happening. 4.Act on your values The concept of workability C)How to evaluate your emotional agility 1.choose a challenging situation in your work life 2.Identify a thought that “hooks” you 3.Self-questioning: avoiding or buying into it? 4.Identify a feeling that it evokes 5.Repeat step3

2) What are the two main concepts that your team is having difficulty understanding and why? Why are you finding each one difficult to understand? 1.When the authors talk about acting on your value to solve the problem, they make it seem pretty easy to balance between things and you can make everything as perfect as possible just by acting on value. But in real life situation, there’s something that’s can’t coexist but at the same time you want them both. And both of them is consistent with your value. So how can you make a choice just by acting on value? 2.I don’t really understand what it means to label our inner experience. Does it mean that we need to identify what’s inside our mind is a thought or a feeling or an idea? Or does it mean that we need to think of more specifically, putting it in a the real situation? 3) Pose one question to the author. This should not be an area of confusion, but instead it should be an area of curiosity. The answer to this question should go beyond the scope of today’s readings. If necessary, explain why your team is curious about this point. How will we know that we are good enough at the emotional agility skills but self-evaluating? It’s there any certain kinds of standards that we can refer to?...