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With more than 500,000 copies sold in 20 languages, Master of Change, The Practice of Groundedness, Peak Performance, and The Passion Paradox have been helping people express their potential, avoid burnout, and attain a more sustainable and genuine kind of excellence. These books offer ideas, skills, and practices for sustainable excellence—based on cutting-edge science, timeless lessons from history and ancient wisdom traditions, and daily practice.
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About Master of Change
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 transformation—both good and bad—regularly. 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 Change flips this script on its head and offers a path for embracing and even growing from life’s constant instability.
It offers a new model that describes change as an ongoing cycle of order, disorder, and reorder—yes, 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, Master of Change reshapes our entire perception of change and shows us how to grow in its midst—ultimately helping us move forward better, stronger, and wiser than we were before.
Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything is Changing—Including You
“A fascinating and inspiring field guide to change and also growing and flourishing here and now." —Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks
"Fantastic, wide-ranging, and deeply profound. A must read." —Derek Thompson, staff writer at The Atlantic, author of Hit Makers
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The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success that Feeds—Not Crushes—Your Soul
About The Practice of Groundedness
Achievement often comes at a cost. Angst, restlessness, frayed relationships, exhaustion, and even substance abuse can be the unwanted side effects of an obsession with outward performance. While the high of occasional wins can keep you going for a while, playing into the always-on, never enough hustle culture ultimately takes a serious toll.
In The Practice of Groundedness, bestselling author Brad Stulberg shares a healthier, more sustainable model for success. At the heart of this model is groundedness–a practice that values presence over rote productivity, accepts that progress is nonlinear, and prioritizes long-term values and fulfillment over short-term gain. To be grounded is to possess a firm and unwavering foundation, a resolute sense of self from which deep and enduring, not shallow and superficial, success can be found. Groundedness does not eliminate ambition and striving; rather, it situates these qualities and channels them in more meaningful ways.
Interweaving case studies, modern science, and time-honored lessons from ancient wisdom traditions such as Buddhism, Stoicism, and Taoism, Stulberg teaches readers how to cultivate the habits and practices of a more grounded life. Readers will learn:
• Why patience is the key to getting where you want to go faster—in work and life—and how to develop it, pushing back against the culture’s misguided obsession with speed and “hacks”
• How to utilize the lens of the wise observer in order to overcome delusion and resistance to clearly see and accept where you are—which is the key to more effectively getting where you want to go
• Why embracing vulnerability is the key to genuine strength and confidence
• The critical importance of “deep community,” or cultivating a sense of belonging and connection to people, places, and causes.
Provocative and practical, The Practice of Groundedness is the necessary corrective to the frenetic pace and endemic burnout resulting from contemporary definitions of success. It offers a new—and better—way.
"Ambitious, far-reaching, and impactful.” —David Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of Range and The Sports Gene
"A thoughtful and actionable book for pursuing more excellence with less angst." —Adam Grant, author of Think Again
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Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
About Peak Performance
A few common principles drive performance, regardless of the field or the task at hand. Whether someone is trying to qualify for the Olympics, break ground in mathematical theory, or craft an artistic masterpiece, many of the practices that lead to great success are the same. In Peak Performance, Brad Stulberg, a coach, researcher, and writer who covers health and the science of human performance, and Steve Magness, a performance scientist and coach of Olympic athletes, team up to demystify these practices and make them accessible to everyone.
The first book of its kind, Peak Performance combines inspiring stories of top performers across a range of domains – from athletic to intellectual to artistic – with the latest science on the cognitive, neurochemical, and physiological factors that underlie mastery. The result is an entertaining read that links traditionally-siloed fields and relies upon cutting-edge science. In doing so, it uncovers unique and powerful insights that can help you take your game to the next level, whatever your game may be.
"An essential playbooks for success, happiness, and getting the most out of ourselves and our lives." — Arianna Huffington, author of Thrive and The Sleep Revolution
"The ideas in Peak Performance will help you become better than you ever imagined." — Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive, When, and To Sell Is Human
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The Passion Paradox: A Guide to Going All In, Finding Success, and Discovering the Benefits of An Unbalanced Life
About The Passion Paradox
Nearly everything you think you know about drive and passion is wrong. Learn how to develop your passion and harness it in productive directions, and control your passion so it doesn't control you.
In this book you'll come to understand: How to cultivate passion in a way that is sustainable and healthy. The relationship between passion, addiction, and mental illness. The difference between harmonious passion (the best kind of passion) and obsessive passion (a destructive force), and how to nurture the former and avoid the latter. The mastery mindset, which ensures you stay passionate about your endeavor without becoming a slave to external results. Focusing on process over outcomes. The illusion of living a perfectly "balanced" life and why passion coupled with self-awareness trumps "balance" any day. Why moving on from a passion can be so hard and tips on how to do so with grace and grit. And so much more.
"Clear, concise, and captivating.” — New York Journal of Books
