Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing Including You

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From expert on sustainable excellence, coach, and bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness comes a revelatory book on rethinking change and creating a rugged and flexible mindset amidst life's intensifying flux.

We undergo change and transformationboth good and badregularly. From social disruptions like economic recessions, pandemics, and new technologies to individual disruptions like getting married, career transitions, and becoming a parent, change is not the exception, its the rule. Yet we endlessly fight it, often viewing it as a threat to our stability and sense of self.

Master of Change flips this script on its head and offers a path for embracing and even growing from change, which is accelerating seemingly every day.

Stulberg introduces a new model that describes change as an ongoing cycle of order, disorder, and reorderyes, we return to stability, but that stability is somewhere new. Rather than resist change we benefit from being in conversation with it. Drawing on convergence between modern science, ancient wisdom, and daily practice, he offers concrete principles for developing a mindset called rugged flexibility, along with the habits and practices to implement it.

Readers will learn:

• How to open to the flow of life.
• The importance of expectations.
• How to cultivate a fluid yet firm sense of self.
• How to create the space to respond not react to life's challenges.
• The paradox of making meaning and moving forward.

And so much more.

The result is a timely and transformative book that reshapes change and shows you how to grow in its midst, moving forward better, stronger, and wiser than you were before.

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"Change is inevitable. Will you let this reality destabilize or empower you Brad Stulberg's immensely wise and timely book provides a powerful roadmap for a tumultuous world." Cal Newport,New York Timesbestselling author ofDigital MinimalismandDeep Work According to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, you cant step in the same river twice. Brad Stulberg makes you wonder why youd want to. Change is inevitable, but if we learn to strugglewithit, notagainstit, we become like rivers ourselves: fluid, flexible, yet ruggedly defined. This book speaks to the twists and eddies in our lives with uncommon warmth and wisdom. Kieran Setiya, author ofLife Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

Author Bio

Brad Stulberg researches, writes, and coaches on health, well-being, and sustainable excellence. He is the bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness, as well as The Passion Paradox and Peak Performance, co-written with Steve Magness. Stulberg regularly contributes to the New York Times, and his work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Outside Magazine, Forbes, and other outlets. He also serves as the co-host of The Growth Equation podcast and is a fellow at the University of Michigans School of Public Health. In his coaching practice, he works with executives, entrepreneurs, physicians, and athletes on their mental skills and overall well-being. He lives in Detroit.