

Adaptability
How To Survive Change You Didn't Ask For
Author: M. J. Ryan
Narrator: M. J. Ryan
Unabridged: 5 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Published: 07/07/2009
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Self-help
Synopsis
Why is it so hard to accept change? Paradoxically, it is for the very reason that our brains usually work so well; we are designed to learn something and make it automatic. The problem is that when circumstances change, our “efficient” brains keep trying to do things the same old way. In AdaptAbility, Ryan provides strategies to retrain your brain and optimize your response to change, step by step: by first accepting the new reality, then expanding your options, and finally, taking effective action. She offers cutting-edge tools for becoming calmer, less fearful, and more flexible, creative, and resourceful in your thinking. Best of all, as your “adapt-ability” increases, so does your confidence that you will be able to face whatever life sends your way and find new ways to