Emotional Alchemy

Hitting rock bottom at certain points in life is inevitable. The ability to rise from those falls is called resilience. But the fall itself is an opportunity to push yourself upward and reach even greater heights than before—psychologists call this Post-Traumatic Growth. And the ability to thrive in chaos, to not just withstand but prosper because of it, is what Professor Nassim Taleb calls Antifragility. resiliencia. Pero la caída es la  oportunidad de impulsarte hacia arriba y lograr llegar aún más alto de donde estabas,  a esto los psicólogos lo llaman: Crecimiento Post-traumático. Y a la capacidad de nutrirte del caos y prosperar incluso gracias a él, el Profesor Nassim Taleb lo llama Antigragilidad.

The goal of life is not to be free from change, movement, discomfort, or pain—that will happen when you are dead. Your goal is to learn how to leverage these inevitable experiences so they unlock your hidden potential, take you to the next level of expansion, and make you a better human being.

It’s about learning to sustain joy for life even in the middle of the storm, by handling everything that happens— even pain and fear—positively and constructively. You can learn to manage afflictive emotions, process uncomfortable experiences to extract their nutrients, and grow because of them. This is what it means to practice Emotional Alchemy. Alquimia Emocional.

In this book, I share my life learnings (empirical), grounded in theoretical and academic knowledge. It is a kind of "manual" based on principles of positive psychology, logotherapy, stoicism, thanatology, and humanism, sprinkled with personal anecdotes and experiences. A manual of ideas, exercises, interventions, and reflections that you can apply to strengthen the muscles of resilience, post-traumatic growth, and antifragility.