Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing, Including You; Embracing Life’s Instability with Rugged Flexibility—a Practical Model for Resilience

National Bestseller“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 Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep WorkA revelatory book on rethinking change, this guide to personal growth helps you develop resilience, and create a rugged and flexible mindset amidst life’s intensifying flux from writer, coach, and bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness.From social disruptions like economic recessions, pandemics, and new technologies to individual disruptions like getting married or divorced, illness and injury, career transitions, and becoming a parent, we undergo change and transformation—both good and bad—regularly. This constant of personal transformation 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 Change flips this script on its head and offers a path for finding strength and stability amid the chaos of life. Brad Stulberg draws on cutting-edge psychology and neuroscience, ancient wisdom, and daily practice to help you develop a mindset called rugged flexibility, as well as habits and practices to implement it. He reveals:How to be in conversation with change instead of it happening to youThe importance of expectationsWhy cultivating a rugged yet flexible sense of self is key to a strong identityHow to stay consistent on the things that matter to you mostHow to take productive action during uncertaintyThe power of embracing tragic optimismIn this powerful work of nonfiction, Stulberg reshapes our entire perception of change and shows us how to use it to grow—helping us to be better, stronger, and wiser than we were before. Read more