The Emotionally Agile Brain is a tour de force! Dr. Pincus carefully and thoroughly does what decades of researchers have yet to do. He brings forward a coherent model—a  research-based taxonomy—of emotional needs that explains why we choose what we choose and why we do what we do. The implications for this taxonomy are groundbreaking, and he shares how it has been applied to areas that have suffered a great deal from concept proliferation (e.g., subjective well-being, employee engagement, organizational culture, etc.). This is a must for those seeking to better understand the antecedents to human behavior in any context.