Master of Change
How to Excel When Everything Is Changing â Including You
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A revelatory book on rethinking change, creating a rugged and flexible mindset and identity, and developing habits for life's intensifying flux.
From social disruptions like economic recessions, pandemics, and new technologies to individual disruptions like getting married, career transitions, and becoming a parent, we undergo change and transformationâboth good and badâregularly. Change is not the exception, it's the rule. Yet we endlessly fight it, often viewing it as a threat to our stability and sense of self.
Master of Chang e flips this script on its head and offers a path for embracing and even growing from life's constant instability.
Brad Stulberg, sustainable excellence expert, coach, and bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness, offers a new model that describes change as an ongoing cycle of order, disorder, and re orderâyes, we return to stability, but that stability is somewhere new. Drawing on modern science, ancient wisdom, and daily practice, Stulberg offers concrete principles for developing a mindset called rugged flexibility, along with habits and practices to implement it. Along the way, Stulberg reveals:
- How to be in conversation with change instead of it happening to you.
- The importance of expectations
- Why cultivating a rugged yet flexible sense of self is key to a strong identity.
- How to take productive action during a challenge.
- The paradox of both making meaning and moving forward.
In the end, Stulberg reshapes our entire perception of change and shows us how to grow in its midstâultimately helping us move forward better, stronger, and wiser than we were before.
Frequently asked questions
Information
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Rugged FlexibilityâA New Model for Working with Change and Thinking About Identity over Time
- Part 1: Rugged and Flexible Mindset
- Chapter 1: Open to the Flow of Life
- Chapter 2: Expect It to Be Hard
- Part 2: Rugged and Flexible Identity
- Chapter 3: Cultivate a Fluid Sense of Self
- Chapter 4: Develop Rugged and Flexible Boundaries
- Part 3: Rugged and Flexible Actions
- Chapter 5: Respond Not React
- Chapter 6: Making Meaning and Moving Forward
- Conclusion: Five Questions and Ten Tools for Embracing Change and Developing Rugged Flexibility
- Additional Suggested Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: List of Common Core Values
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by Brad Stulberg
- Copyright
- About the Publisher