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

In this instance, change and impermanence are not phenomena to fear or resist—at

Only organizations that deliberately cultivate their rugged boundaries and then flexibly apply them have a shot at prospering over the long haul.

The crucial work is updating your expectations and confronting reality, even if doing so feels difficult and uncomfortable at first.

For particularly devastating and unprecedented changes—experiences like loss, illness, and identity crises—the psychological immune system does not work immediately. It takes time to marshal the resources necessary

it is not so much change itself that causes harm, but our slow uptake of it, or in some cases, our downright resistance and refusal.

You can take a hit in one part of your identity without losing others.

Fromm writes that true joy is “what we experience in the process of growing nearer to the goal of becoming ourselves.”

Rugged flexibility accepts that on occasion things feel pointless and we need to give our psychological immune systems the time they need to work effectively.

Eagleman’s work demonstrates, in part, why everything feels drawn out during particularly difficult periods of disorder. Though perhaps not as acute as dropping on the SCAD, big changes put us on high alert and in hyper-aroused states. Identifying when this is happening and being patient with ourselves is key.