Resilience By Design: How to Survive and Thrive in a Complex and Turbulent World

by Ian Snape, Ian Snape

Discover how to transform stress and other unwanted states into resilience, clarity, and improved wellbeing with this insightful new book Resilience By How to Survive and Thrive in a Complex and Turbulent World delivers the world’s most detailed and research-backed how-to manual to integrate advances from neuroscience and complexity theory with real world expertise, providing practical techniques that you'll want to use every day. Alongside well explained scientific theory, each chapter contains dramatic, real-life stories of people from frontline services, elite sports, and everyday survivors who learned to thrive in high pressure, demanding, and often deadly situations. You'll discover how resilience isn’t just the ability to tough it out; it's dependent upon an interconnected set of skills, techniques, creative processes, and new understandings of how we think, act, and interact with our environments and each other. If you or someone you care about experiences unwanted stress, anxiety, decision fatigue, overwhelm, or burnout, by applying the step-by-step techniques in this book, you'll learn to develop resilience, clarity, improved energy, wellbeing, and overall performance. You'll also Resilience By Design was derived from the experiences of hundreds of people on the frontline of emergency services, defense, Olympic level sports, business, art, science, and many other areas of expertise―from firefighters and paramedics to social workers and athletes. This book is written for students and teachers, parents and children, caregivers and patients, athletes and coaches, managers and employees, entrepreneurs, and fortune 500 CEOs, and anyone who wishes to know how to survive and thrive in an ever more complex and turbulent world.

Genres: Business

416 pages, Paperback

Published October 26, 2021

Reviews

[Janelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not sure my feedback is wonderful purely because I wanted this to assist myself. Been through some really tough times and for me, a tertiary educator in my past, but now dealing with aftermath it was too difficult to read. Not because of the writing rather because of my brain’s current capacity.

This book is more suited as a text, for students or possibly practitioners. It is too much for those looking for strategies to assist themselves. Nicely presented yet not a book for those wishing to rebuild their resilience by design.

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

Admittedly I re read the start twice to grasp the message that there’s no such thing as stress , at least as a cause of sorts. Then I read to suit my adhd, sections that called to me, instead of end to end. Each double page is just bursting with goodness and life helping information. I don’t understand why this isn’t a best seller? It also fits with my science based need for evidence with 700 references. More than resilience, this is a manual for living life like a box of chocolates ( spoiler for the last page). Brilliant Snape and weeks. I reckon a classic one day.

[Harley · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book on intentional resilience is perfect, even three years into the pandemic. There’s been a few sleepless nights lately and I’ve had to remind myself to ‘let my tongue drop to the bottom of my mouth’ and to ‘stand tall and breathe’.

I’m still caught by a reference to Hans Rosling’s study on poverty, with 6 billion people living on under $32USD a day (3 billion on $3-$8 per day).

It’s a good book - thanks Ian Snape and Mike Weeks.

[Mahna Ghafori · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome insights! It’s a great book you can open up and pick and choose what parts you want to read. Lots of cool facts, tips, studies on building resilience and living your most optimized life! Learned a lot

[Amber Brusak · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a coffee table book that I spent a long time sifting through. I really appreciated the metaphors and big picture ideas of how to deal with and thrive in a turbulent world.