Summary of Master of Change by Brad Stulberg: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You

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Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, a sustainable excellence expert and coach, offers a new model for embracing and growing from life's constant instability. Drawing on modern science, ancient wisdom, and daily practice, Stulberg presents principles for developing a rugged flexibility mindset and habits to implement it. He reveals how to be in conversation with change, the importance of expectations, cultivating a strong identity, taking productive action during challenges, and the paradox of making meaning and moving forward. This book reshapes our perception of change and helps us grow stronger and wiser.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Sep 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9783755452638

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Introduction : Rugged Flexibility— A New Model for Working with Change and Thinking About Identity over Time

The coronavirus pandemic has been a significant disorder event, disrupting our experiences of ourselves and the world we inhabit. It has led to significant human and economic destruction, disrupting how we work, play, love, grieve, and participate in our communities. On average, people experience thirty-six disorder events in their adulthood, including starting a job, leaving a job, getting married, getting divorced, having children, losing a loved one, becoming ill, moving to a new town, graduating from school, meeting a new best friend, publishing a book, earning a big promotion, becoming an empty nester, retiring, and so on. Life is constantly changing, including us.

A central narrative in our culture urges us to seek stability, but this doesn't reflect the reality that change is constant and can be a dramatic force for growth. Accepting the inevitability of change can be scary at first, but it can also be empowering and even an advantage. Learning rugged flexibility (working with change) minimizes distress, restlessness, and angst while promoting deep happiness and lasting fulfillment. This approach is foundational to sustainable excellence and makes for kinder and wiser people, something the world desperately needs.

The latest findings from psychology, biology, sociology, philosophy, and neuroscience demonstrate that change itself is neutral and becomes negative or positive based on how we view it and what we do with it. Ancient wisdom traditions like Buddhism, Stoicism, and Taoism recognize the cyclical nature of reality and the pervasiveness of change. Clinging to the illusion of permanence leads to suffering at worst.

Rugged Flexibility is a framework that aims to provide the foundational qualities needed to survive and thrive amidst change and disorder. This approach is based on the concept of homeostasis, which describes a cycle of order, disorder, and order in living systems. Homeostasis has been adopted as the predominant way to think about change in various domains, but it is not always accurate.

People tend to respond to change in four ways: attempting to avoid change or refuse to acknowledge it, actively resisting change, sacrificing agency amidst chaos, and trying to get back to where we were before a disorder event. These tendencies can be seen in one's own life, workplace, family, or