I recently attended a conference in San Diego where author Chip Conley was one of the keynote speakers. I was throughly taken by Chip’s personal story, and his new book entitled ” Emotional Equations-Simple Truths for Creating Happiness and Success .
I have been interviewing authors for over 5 years and have been immersed in the personal growth field for over 30 years. Chip Conley’s new book “Emotional Equations” is the real deal. It is easy to understand, and I love how Chip has taken what sometimes can be difficult ideas to convey, and created equations out of them. His formulas help the reader take universal truths and turn it into a visual lexicon for mastering your life challenges.
I dont’ know how many of my listeners have read the classic book by Victor Frankl entitled ” Man’s Search for Meaning“. If you are not familiar with the story it is about Frankl’s agony in the Nazi concentration camp. The essence of this book is that the Nazi’s were attempting to break down the prisoners mentally, and in Frankl’s words“everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Chip has distilled the essence of “Man’s Search for Meaning” book into this wonderful equation: Dispair=Suffering-Meaning. How simple!!
Some of Chips’ other equations are: Disappointment = Expectations-Reality or Joy=Love-Fear. No matter what emotion, Chip has a formula.
Chip states that their are parallels between math and life. He states that when he was at is lowest point in his life that the “Meaning Equation” (above) gave him the knowledge and conviction that if he placed his attention more on the meaning of his disparate collection of painful events, as apposed to the suffering, that he would likely have less dispair in his life. He states that during his more troubled weeks, the equation felt as if it was his instructions manual for deactivating his emotional explosives.
If you are currently dealing with pain or suffering in your life, then I would highly recommend that you read Chips’ new book “Emotional Equations“. I personally love how he has distilled our emotions into equations,almost as if the equations diffuse our personal connection to the painful emotions, and allow us to see the situation so much more clearly.
In all my years of working in the personal growth, mastery and human potential movement I have never come across a book like “Emotional Equations”. It is a must read for anyone seeing to better understand their emotions!
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