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

Meanwhile, judging yourself for feeling down, or internalizing the idea that there is something wrong with you when you are sad (or that sadness is a weakness), only makes whatever you are going through harder.

consciousness is not solely our experience of reality; it is our experience of reality filtered and modulated by our expectations for it.

existential dilemma, or the undercurrent of confusion and fear that accompanies living in a vast world where everything is impermanent.

Swaths of psychological research show that our happiness in any given moment is a function of our reality minus our expectations. When reality matches or exceeds expectations, we feel good. When reality falls short of expectations, we feel bad.

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.

Core values are your guiding principles. It is good to have three to five (an extended list of example core values is in the appendix on page 203). Define each of your core values in specific terms and come up with a few ways that you can practice them in day-to-day life. The goal is to take what can seem like lofty qualities and attributes and mak

In other words, organizations are like individuals: they struggle to maintain their identities during periods of change and disorder.

The first core quality of rugged flexibility is opening to the flow of life.

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