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النجاح تحت الضغوط : أدوات فعالة للحفاظ على الهدوء والثقة

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"يقدم هذا الكتاب ترسانة حقيقية من حلول ""الرصاصة السحرية"" لزيادة إنتاجيتك وتقليل توترك كما أنه سوف يساعدك على خفض أداء مولد توترك الداخلي وعلاج الاضطرابات في أي من علاقاتك وتحقيق مستوى من الرضا الوظيفي أعلى من ذي قبل كل هذا وأنت تشع بطاقة من الهدوء والثقة لم تشعر بهما من قبل. إن القدرة على تحقيق نتائج أروع والحفاظ على رباطة الجأش والهدوء خلال فترات التغيير والتحديات هي المهارة الأساسية الفارقة في عالم اليوم. اقرأ هذا الكتاب فهو زاخر برؤى عميقة وأدوات عملية قادرة على إحداث فارق في الحياة ومنحك التحكم في نجاحك.

277 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2012

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Sharon Melnick

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SHARON MELNICK, PH.D., is a business psychologist dedicated to helping professionals “get out of their own way.” Her practical tools are informed by 10 years of research at Harvard Medical School and field-tested by over 6,000 training participants and coaching clients.

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451 reviews178 followers
October 26, 2014
Очень хорошая книга, которая на самом деле не про стресс, а про тайм-менеджмент :). /Хотя и ежу понятно, что тайм-менеджмент и стресс-менеджмент очень тесно связаны; но книга больше про "тайм", чем про "стресс" :))/

Пожалуй, правильнее было бы её назвать "Как сохранять эффективность и высокую производительность в любых ситуациях". По сути дела книга о том, как добиваться высоких результатов, несмотря на внешние помехи и негативные внутренние состояния (стресс, отсутствие энергии и т.п.).

Возможно, книга разочарует тех, кто "в теме" и ищет "что-то новенькое". Ценность книги - не в "новеньком", а в грамотности (с точки зрения научной психологии и физиологии) подачи рекомендаций по повышению эффективности.

В книге есть кейсы, но их мало, т.е. весь текст практически без "воды" - это одни сплошные практические рекомендации в стиле "бери и делай". Автор упаковывает свои советы в чёткие пошаговые алгоритмы (например, "3 стратегии/способа быть в фокусе") или в лёгкие для запоминания и применения формулы (например, "формула 3М2П" для расстановки приоритетов; или формула "ПОРА" для реакции на отвлечения и т.д.). Вообще, полезных рекомендаций и разного рода "фишек" в книге ОЧЕНЬ много - пересказать их в короткой рецензии просто не реально.

Вот лишь некоторые идеи из книги:

- что такое "круг стресса" и как его разорвать

- что такое "внутренний рычаг контроля" и "правило 50%"

- что такое "направленное мышление" и как всегда оставаться в фокусе

- как управлять своей внутренней энергией, опираясь на понимание того, как работает наша симпатическая/парасимпатическая нервная система

- очень интересно про различия между мужчинами и женщинами в преодолении стресса (у мужчин "борись или беги" у женщин "заботься и/или дружи" :)))

- в книге много быстрых дыхательных техник и физических упражнений (в основном из йоги), позволяющих быстро "включить" нужное рабочее состояние

- правила планирования, постановки целей, выбора приоритетов и т.п.

- хорошие рекомендации по преодолению сомнений, отвлечений, перфекционизма, прокрастинации, плохого настроения, гнева и раздражительности и т.п.

- автор прекрасно понимает, что главная "помеха" в управлении временем - это окружающие нас люди. Если мы хотим быть эффективными, нужно уметь особым образом выстраивать отношения с окружающими. В книге на эту тему есть отличные разделы про networking и про то, как влиять на окружающих, чтобы они помогали, а не мешали вам.

- автор также скептически относится к пресловутому work-life balance. Вот, к примеру, цитата: "Дело не в балансе, а в удовольствии - если то, что вы делаете, приносит радость, то вы все делаете верно".

- в самом конце книги есть подборка из 12 лучших антистрессовых техник (они же - техники поддержания оптимальной работоспособности). Готов подписаться под каждой техникой :), они очень эффективны.

Что важно: советы и примеры в книге ориентированы на управленческие/бизнес-ситуации. Книга будет полезны не только для себя любимого :), но и в работе менеджера, работающего с людьми.

Скажу честно, что книга мне ОЧЕНЬ понравилась! Было такое ощущение, как будто написал её сам :). Причём, совпадения были даже в мелочах, на уровне отдельных техник. Например, Шэрон Мельник предлагает упражнение "идеальный рабочий день"; а я его использую на своих тренингах по тайм-менеджменту уже лет десять :).

Например, автор предлагает составить "портрет/профиль стресса" (т.е. некий список признаков, по которым вы понимаете, что теряете свою энергию и работоспособность). Аналогичным образом на тренингах я даю задание на калибровку внутренней энергии (работоспособности): представить свой "образ силы" и свой "образ слабости".

/Скажу по секрету, что таких совпадений в книге очень много ;). Хотя я и не нашёл в ней чего-либо принципиально "новенького", но зато в ней есть очень много "тонкостей", т.к. даже давно известные техники тайм-менеджмента и самоорганизации любой профессионал применяет немного по-своему, и вот эти детали как раз - самое интересное/.
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47 reviews16 followers
November 23, 2015
There is some good material in this book. I liked the image of a "mental iPod", for example, to illustrate the way our thought patterns affect us. And the author often diagnoses the problem quite well. However, there's much more in the book that bothered me. For example, the book overpromises complete success rather than a more realistic, modest goal. The book is also laced with advice on physiology which I find highly questionable from a scientific point of view (such as the bits on "adrenal imbalance" or the inflated wonders of certain breathing techniques). You may benefit from it if you can "spit out the bones and swallow the meat".

I listened to the audio book and the narrator had a very annoying "infomercial" voice. I stuck with the book to the end because so many had given it 5 stars, but it was a chore, despite the shortness of the book. It did not improve.
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258 reviews8 followers
November 3, 2022
This book contains a mix of mostly good advice, some of the recommendations are great, some may seem like common sense and others seem kind of dubious.

The concept of owning your 50% is very helpful for reducing stress in life.
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907 reviews205 followers
March 18, 2022
Success Under Stress started out ok, but then droned on. I found myself getting frustrated with the writing as the book progressed...

Author Sharon Melnick, PhD is a global authority on women’s success, leadership, resilience, and power. Her approach combines leadership best practices with behavior change methods she developed through 10 years of psychology research at Harvard Medical School.

Sharon Melnick:


Melnick opens the book with a decent intro. The scope of the writing is laid out. A few warning bells went off for me early on here, as she made some incredibly ambitious promises...

She places a strong focus on identifying what is and is not within your control in the early part of the book.
In this quote, she tells the reader about the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS):
"Your nervous system has two parts: (1) an energizing sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and (2) a calming and rejuvenating parasympathetic nervous system (PNS). Your SNS gives you energy to accomplish tasks and tackle problems. It’s wired to keep you focused on the past and solving problems in the way you always have. Your PNS helps you relax, see the big picture, access your intuition, and return stress back to resting levels when you get revved up. It helps you think through the entire set of possible solutions to problems and expands your outlook to be more future
thinking."

As with many other self-help/mindset books, she describes some breathing exercises:
TOOL #1 The Mental Reset Three-Part Breath
Breath: Inhale through the nose, hold, exhale through the nose all to the same count (example: inhale 5 counts, hold 5, exhale 5)
Hand Position: Bring together 10 fingertips to balance left and right hemispheres.
Duration: 3 minutes, 1–2x/day, or when overwhelmed.
For enhanced results, do it for one longer period (7–11 minutes)/day.

She also guides the reader to recognize their personal strengths, saying:
What are your personal strengths?
Identify the top accomplishments in your life—the ones that you are truly proud of. More than likely, two to three core strengths helped you achieve these accomplishments. These strengths are your success factors. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.” Sculpt your work role around your unique “faculty.”
Often, business owners try to be “all things to all people” instead of concentrating on the strength that comes the most easily to them (and compels other people to purchase from them). “Any time you don’t spend there sets you up for failure,” says Rich Schefren. “Knowing your strengths can also help you work around obstacles in your business. . . . I see my flaws as my flaws and sculpt the business around me. For example, I hired a writer, so if writing sits on my desk for more than three days she does it or finishes it for me so I don’t inhibit our productivity.”7 Hire or trade with someone who has complementary strengths.
What are your unique strengths?

Although a lot of the book had an overall good message, there were a bit too many kitschy acronyms dropped in for my tastes...
And as mentioned at the start of this review, I really did not like the general formatting of this book.
I felt that much of the writing here was overly jumbled, and jumped around far too often. This had the effect of losing the reader's focus and attention (well, at least this reader's...)

She ties a know in the book with this summary, that I've included mainly for my own future reference, but also for anyone else interested:
The Top 12 Resilience Strategies for Success Under Stress:
The Golden Rule of Resilience to stress is be impeccable for your 50% in every situation. Here are 12 ways you can do that:
1. Act in the service of your Horizon Point: Instead of reacting to demands, impose control. Define the qualities/attributes of the person you want to be and make your daily purpose to act in the service of this endpoint (Chapter 3)
2. Three-part breath: This 3-minute exercise helps balance the energizing and calming parts of your nervous system and offers you a rapid mental reset (Chapter 4).
3. Sprint-recovery pattern in your day: A scheduling approach that allows you to maintain all day focus and energy by pushing yourself followed by a brief period of rejuvenation. Include exercise and breathing techniques as excellent “recovery” activities (Chapter 4).
4. Eat right, sleep right: Eat a low-sugar, high-protein diet to have longlasting energy without dips throughout the day (Chapter 7). Use Left Nostril Breathing to instantly calm you and help you get to sleep or put you back to sleep (Chapter 4).
5. Cooling breath: This breathing technique keeps you remain cool, calm, and collected instead of reactive in the face of other peoples distress. It helps calm the other person down too (Chapter 10)!
6. “Stories” log: Learn to stop taking things personally by becoming more objective about other peoples behavior and changing your “story”
(Chapter 9).
7. Go Direct!: Learn to stop self imposing stress by building your own self-confidence rather than having to seek other peoples approval or hold yourself back to prevent their disapproval (Chapter 6).
8. A-C-T to eliminate most interruptions: Take control over other people interrupting you by having preset criteria when you will accept, curtail, or triage interruptions (Chapter 5).
9. Clarity is your best time-management tool: Prioritize by having clarity on your role, a strategic objectives/business model, and high value priorities. Then, be more intentional about saying “yes” and “no” to requests (Chapter 5).
10. Panic Reset button: Use the acupressure point to immediately reduce feelings of panic and anxiety (Chapter 7).
11. F-I-R-E technique: When someone else’s behavior stresses you out, influence them by transferring the ownership with this four-step conversation technique (Chapter 11).
12. Be the DJ of your mental iPod: Change your self-critical and fearful self-talk with this technique (Chapter 8).


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2.5 stars for this one.
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665 reviews61 followers
November 30, 2016
me while reading this book:



ужасно, просто отвратительно написано - вода, вода, вода, аааа. такое ощущение, чтобы переворачиваешь горы мусора, чтоы найти - нет, даже не жемчужину, скорее стразик. то есть вот автор говорит тебе - сейчас я расскажу о дыхательном упражнении, которое снижает стресс. и пошла одна страница, вторая, третья, четвертая, пятая - а упражнения все нет!!111



почти нет ничего о гормонах и нейромедиаторах, ничего о биологии мозга, ничего о нейрофизиологии - точнее, какое-то беспомощное УГ про "включение" и "выключение" симпатической и парасимпатической нервной системы, написанное как будто для школьников. и это phd написал??

полезная информация, короче, уместится на листе А4 - это как раз пара упражнений. да и то, если занимался йогой и делал пранаямы, про все это ты уже слышал

don't waste your time on this book
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563 reviews20 followers
May 25, 2016
The book is very wordy and difficult to get through. If you are stressed, you don't want to have to wade through paragraph after paragraph of filler to get to the good stuff. I found that skipping to the end of each chapter to the 'Action Plan' and 'Points to Remember', and then going back to read more in depth if there was something there that interested me, was a more reasonable strategy. Once I started doing that, it was much easier to find some methods/ideas that were beneficial to me.
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8 reviews1 follower
March 16, 2021
I wanted to like this book, but decided to stop reading at p143, after multiple instances of self-promotion by the author. She created a bunch of fancy phrases to convey well-known concepts and repeatedly refers the reader back to her own website.
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338 reviews6 followers
November 18, 2018
Формат: Книга Язык: Русский
Книга на 4.5 звезды, но поставим 5. В начале книги возникло ощущение, что это одна из обычных книг по саморазвитию, серых и похожих друг на друга. Потом книга удивила и показала несколько жемчужин, вроде "свои 50%", которые на данный момент сильно пересекаются с моими собственными мыслями. Было еще несколько интересных мыслей и по концентрации "жемчужин" данная книга превосходит последние книги которые я читал по тематике self-growth.
Видно, что книга написана женщиной, т.к. многие подходы рекомендуемые в книге являются тем, что бы я назвал "женским подходом", но мысли здравы и можно и нужно подумать как их использовать. По ходу прочтения возникло желание книгу перечитать и все замеченных жемчужины законспектировать.
Заканчиваю хвальбу книге, т.к. не очень полезного материала там было тоже достаточно, но как я уже сказал книга удивила (возможно на фоне низких ожиданий и рейтинга <4).
К перепрочтению - да, в 2 этапа. Сейчас законспектировать некоторые жемчужины, что-бы не забыть. И перепрочитать года через 2-3, убедиться что это было не наваждение.
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58 reviews40 followers
June 2, 2019
Overall, Success Under Stress provides many handy tips and tricks that greatly impacted the way of how I work in general. The few suggestions that stood up to me the most is how to only care about our 50%, to go direct, and to do one task at a time, starting with the easiest ones. As this was my first ever self-help book, I am also looking forward to reading more of these in the future.
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58 reviews
October 26, 2022
Абсолютно бесполезная книга, напичканная рекламой и отсылками к самой же себе, обещающая золотые горы стрессоустойчивости, которые сводятся к паре полезных советов в духе «берите ответственность за свои 50%, а за не свои 50% - не берите». Уж не буду говорить про главу об «эффективности акупунктуры».
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87 reviews3 followers
January 23, 2024
This book contains some (very few) pieces of advice to work the stress, but it mostly pointless. It also contains a lot of esoteric things such as spiritual energies. Most of the good ideas can be written in page or two. Can't recommend it at all
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259 reviews1 follower
October 21, 2017
Might be good for someone who works in a large more anonymous work place but in my small shop of 5 it's not as helpful. Also I'm confident so there's that.
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34 reviews1 follower
October 24, 2017
Книга про принципы, которым стоит следовать в стрессорасполагающих обстоятельствах. Их не очень-то и много изложено. Известно досконально, что знание о них не избавляет от стресса, только практика.
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36 reviews
July 30, 2018
She offered practical, concrete advice on how to make yourself more resilient. I’ve been putting this into practice and it’s working!
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16 reviews1 follower
August 19, 2018
Everyone who has a very challenging career should be reading this book.
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48 reviews2 followers
December 30, 2019
العنوان اللامع مغري أكثر من المحتوى الذي عابه سوء الترجمة وحشو المؤلف بتقنيات بديهية عند التوتر والقلق وتزايد الضغوط في العمل ..
الكتاب من 250 صفحة يمكن أن يوجز الى 50 صفحة بدون اخلال في المضمون .
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2 reviews
March 21, 2020
Many tips from the book I have been already using in my life intuitively, but the book helped me to slice and dice them in my head. I can control everyday stress better now.
384 reviews1 follower
May 1, 2021
Some great techniques. Look forward to trying them in the near future.
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327 reviews14 followers
December 28, 2021
Brilliant, practical, changing my world around—highly recommend! Be responsible for your 50% is the main line, with good strategies for working through relationships in work/other contexts.
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9 reviews
May 19, 2022
Buen libro buenos consejos y tips para el ambiente laboral principalmente. Vale la pena leerlo
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18 reviews
February 27, 2025
Some good ideas, but too many acronyms and x-step processes that are trying to be catchy.
25 reviews1 follower
March 7, 2025
‘Pretty standard stuff. Was hoping more how to deal with stress in moment but it’s like life stress. Meh.
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162 reviews20 followers
December 11, 2018
Way too simplistic in my opinion. Struggled to get through.
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76 reviews2 followers
October 24, 2020
I really liked this book. It would have been too much to take in for me when I was really under pressure. The techniques are very practical to create space to think and not panic.
167 reviews4 followers
December 31, 2016
Like a fortune-teller, the author kicks off the book by describing what the reader's work life is probably like... and it made my hair stand up. I looked behind me to see if she was still there, behind a leafy blind, taking notes like an anthropologist. Her description of working while stressed hit very close to home. Stupid mistakes, worsening memory, flashes of anger when new "urgent" tasks came in... I needed this book.

Learn how to remain calm and positive, no matter what's going on around you. Learn how this helps you to stay in "the zone," enabling your creative intelligence, focus, intuition, eureka moments, and to steward your energy through the work day and beyond. Chaos dissolves into order, and the rat race slows to a manageable pace, when you can keep your head.

Now, what is your career dream, and WHO do you need to be in order to achieve that? Learn to summon up that version of yourself every day, every moment.

So glad I read this book. Looking forward to implementing its advice.
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616 reviews9 followers
October 24, 2014
Ridiculously helpful tips on how to recognize, deal with, and prevent stress in your life. Everything from conceptual to behavioral to breathing. I wish I'd read this in a book group or with a friend so I could've digested each chapter a little better and tried things out sort of on a schedule. But I took a ton of notes that I'm already reviewing, so maybe I'll try that week-by-week now. It was a slow read for me, but largely b/c it was truly so chock-full that I couldn't take in too much at a time.
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1,229 reviews
September 4, 2014
I thought it was a very positive book and had a lot of tips to reduce stress. I especially liked the parts dealing with identifying your own personal triggers and remembering to be impeccable for your 50%.
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57 reviews
February 20, 2013
Excellent summary of stress management techniques. Very practical!
19 reviews
August 6, 2014
Not a bad read. Took longer than I thought. I thought the author was too long-winded and not direct in their methods and/or points on how to achieve success under stress :)
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