Emotional Equations

“An invaluable operating manual,” says Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO and author of Delivering Happiness. Using brilliantly simple logic that illuminates the universal truths in common emotional challenges, popular motivational speaker and bestselling author Chip Conley has written “a fresh, original guide to an authentic and fulfilling life.”

When Conley, dynamic author of the bestselling Peak, suffered a series of devastating personal and professional setbacks, he began using what he came to call “Emotional Equations” (like Joy = Love - Fear) to help him focus on the variables in life that he could handle, rather than dwelling on the parts he couldn't, like the bad economy, death, and taxes.

Emotional Equations offers a way to identify the elements in our lives that we can change, those we can't, and how they all interact to create emotions that we can use to work for us rather than against us. Equations like “Despair = Suffering - Meaning” and “Happiness = Wanting What You Have/Having What You Want” (which Chip presented at the prestigious TED conference) have been reviewed for mathematical and psychological accuracy by experts. Now, Conley tells his own comeback story and those of other resilient people and inspiring role models who have worked through emotional equations in their own lives. Emotional Equations arms readers with practical strategies for turbulent times.