Shift: How to Manage Your Emotions so They Don't Manage You

如何掌控情緒，而非被情緒掌控


本書探討如何讓情緒成為助力而非阻礙，結合最新科學研究與真實故事，顛覆傳統情商觀念，例如「逃避一定有害」或「時時刻刻活在當下」。
透過具體策略，教你如何運用情緒做出更好的決策，提升健康與成功機會。
適合面臨壓力、希望提升情商的讀者，如職場人士、學生、家長及領導者，是一本兼具理論深度與實用性的情緒管理指南。

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「對於任何懷疑自己能否掌控情緒的人，這本書給出了答案：可以。」
—《堅毅力》（Grit）作者 安琪拉·達克沃斯（Angela Duckworth）

「這本書不僅解釋了情緒，還開創了管理情緒的新方法。」
—《逆思維》（Think Again）作者 亞當·格蘭特（Adam Grant）

「一本革新性的指南，教你掌控情緒生活。」
—《超級溝通者》（Supercommunicators）作者 查爾斯·杜希格（Charles Duhigg）


無論是對看牙醫的焦慮、在塞車時的憤怒，還是痛苦分手後的崩潰，我們的生活中充滿讓我們情緒失控的情境。
然而，儘管情緒帶來困擾，它們同時也是一種超能力。如果能在適當的時間以正確方式激活，它們就像免疫系統一樣，提醒我們周遭環境，指導我們如何應對情境，並協助我們做出正確選擇。

但我們該如何讓情緒為我們所用，而不是反過來控制我們？
著名心理學家 伊森·克羅斯博士（Dr. Ethan Kross） 將他的科學職涯奉獻於回答這個問題。在《Shift》中，他打破了許多常見迷思，例如「逃避一定是有害的」或「我們應該隨時活在當下」，並提供了一套全新的框架，幫助我們調整情緒，使它們不再主導我們的生活。

《Shift》結合了突破性的研究與扣人心弦的故事，描寫了人們如何掙扎並成功掌控情緒：從一位母親在飛行途中因恐懼而做出挽救女兒生命的即時決定，到攜帶核武代碼的海豹突擊隊成員如何在地獄般的訓練中學會擁抱喜悅和痛苦。
克羅斯博士告訴我們，我們其實已擁有各種情緒管理工具，並示範如何有效運用這些工具，讓自己變得更健康、更成功。

這本書充滿了實用建議、尖端研究和鼓舞人心的故事。《Shift》將情緒的主導權交還到我們手中，讓我們能掌控自己的情緒，而非被情緒掌控，並幫助他人做到同樣的事。

'For anyone who has wondered whether they'll ever be in charge of their emotions, this book has the answer: yes' - Angela Duckworth, author of Grit

'This book does much more than make sense of emotions – it breaks new ground on how to manage them' - Adam Grant, author of Think Again

'A revolutionary guide to mastering your emotional life' – Charles Duhigg, author of Supercommunicators

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.