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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:
- There's no such thing as an inherently stressful situation, workplace, or event.
- How to appreciate and benefit from the hidden information in your unconscious signals and intuitions
- How to adapt your decision making to meet the challenges of uncertainty, from the complicated and complex, to the outright chaotic
- When to define your limits and "line in the sand" so that you never expose yourself to unmanageable risk or potential burnout
- What is it to, "Know Thyself", through techniques that change perspective and bring clarity even in uncertain, turbulent times
- Techniques that can be easily taught to people you care about
- Lifelong resilience and being at your best is available to each of us, no matter what life throws at you.
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.
About the AuthorsIan Snape has 25 years of experience leading research teams in polar regions for government and private agencies. He is a professorial fellow at Macquarie and Melbourne Universities and neurocoach for the Australian Olympic taekwondo team. As a Ph.D. graduate, he has a distinguished scientific research profile and provides scientific advice to the Australian Government Ian is a martial arts instructor who has led more than a dozen Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. He trains the Frontline Mind programme to Police Special Operations groups, correctional officers, and other frontline services in Australia
Mike Weeks, CEO of Frontline Minds, is a coach, trainer and speaker, specializing in resilience and peak performance for high-pressure operators, such as Special Forces and extreme athletes. He was formerly a professional free climber who bridged the gap between elite sports performance, coaching and media. Mike has lead, coached, trained and consulted globally for thousands of individuals and teams. He is a published author in the fields of neuropsychology and is recognized by US immigration as an extraordinary talent in human behavior and lifestyle expertise.
