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Discover how to transform stress and other unwanted states into resilience, clarity, and improved wellbeing with this insightful new book
Resilience By Design: How to Survive and Thrive in a Complex and Turbulent World delivers the world’s most detailed and research-backed how-to manual to integrate advances from neuroscience and complexity theory with real world expertise, providing practical techniques that you'll want to use every day. Alongside well explained scientific theory, each chapter contains dramatic, real-life stories of people from frontline services, elite sports, and everyday survivors who learned to thrive in high pressure, demanding, and often deadly situations.
You'll discover how resilience isn’t just the ability to tough it out; it's dependent upon an interconnected set of skills, techniques, creative processes, and new understandings of how we think, act, and interact with our environments and each other.
If you or someone you care about experiences unwanted stress, anxiety, decision fatigue, overwhelm, or burnout, by applying the step-by-step techniques in this book, you'll learn to develop resilience, clarity, improved energy, wellbeing, and overall performance.
You'll also learn:
Resilience By Design was derived from the experiences of hundreds of people on the frontline of emergency services, defense, Olympic level sports, business, art, science, and many other areas of expertise—from firefighters and paramedics to social workers and athletes. This book is written for students and teachers, parents and children, caregivers and patients, athletes and coaches, managers and employees, entrepreneurs, and fortune 500 CEOs, and anyone who wishes to know how to survive and thrive in an ever more complex and turbulent world.
DR. IAN SNAPE is a former research leader and executive at the Australian Antarctic Division. He has led 14 polar expeditions and has Black Belts in Taekwondo and Hapkido, is an accomplished ski mountaineer, and author of more than 100 academic papers. He coaches and trains CEOs, Olympic athletes, and frontline professionals using the techniques outlined in this book.
MIKE WEEKS is a free climber, adventurer, entrepreneur, and coach to elite athletes, military special forces, business executives, and high performers in many fields. He currently advises governments on eco defense and resilience, which is a far cry from famously coaching Jack Osbourne to climb a 1000m wall in the globally broadcast Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie.
Chapter 1 resilience
Chapter 2 SENSEMAKING
Chapter 3 THINKING
Chapter 4 STATE
Chapter 5 Perspective
Chapter 6 Context
Chapter 7 Signals
Chapter 8 Intentions
Chapter 9 Reframing
Chapter 10 Flow
Chapter 11 Rest
Chapter 12 Lifestyle
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