Mental Fitness, Paul Wood
Mental Fitness, Paul Wood
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Mental Fitness
How to build mental strength and fitness to take on life's challenges, from bestselling author of HOW TO ESCAPE FROM PRISON

Author: Paul Wood

Narrator: Christopher Brown

Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/30/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The bestselling author of How to Escape from Prison, prisoner-turned-psychologist Paul Wood on developing the mental strength and fitness to take on all of life's challenges
Getting and staying mentally fit, just like getting and maintaining a high level of physical fitness, involves hard work, effort, and consistency. Our level of mental fitness determines how effectively we can flourish through adversity, realise our potential, and be happier with our lives - regardless of what the universe has in store.We all know about mental stress (or we think we do). We've definitely all experienced it, and none of us like it. Yet this is not a threat to be avoided. Mental stress is perfectly analogous to physical stress: it is the mind's way of telling us that what we are attempting to perform is challenging our resource. This is a catalyst for growth, and a sign we are pursuing our potential. When we experience stress, we have a choice: we can heed that signal and give up - after all, we're meant to stay in our psychic comfort zone all the time, right? Or we can recognise the discomfort we are feeling is simply nature's way of enabling us to rise to the occasion.In Mental Fitness you will learn how to: Increase your mental fitness, just as you would increase your physical fitness Get closer to your potential by working proactively to maintain your mental fitness Experience the right level of stress (this is what makes us get fitter) Cope effectively for longer before you get fatigued or exhausted (it doesn't mean you don't feel the struggle) Pay attention to the indicators of fatigue to avoid burnout and unnecessary misery

About Paul Wood

Paul Wood is a doctor of psychology, motivational speaker, leadership and development specialist, media personality, husband and father. His area of expertise is in helping people pursue their potential while developing the mental toughness and resilience necessary to flourish through adversity. At 18 Paul was in prison and his life was completely off the rails. Paul uses his journey from delinquent to doctor to illustrate the process of transformational change and how we can strive to be the best version of ourselves possible.

About Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown is the author of Tropic of Kansas. He was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for the anthology Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including MIT Technology Review's ""Twelve Tomorrows,"" The Baffler, and Stories for Chip. He lives in Austin, Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel

I was not the target audience of this book. I’ve just finished it and 90% of it went in one ear and out the other. The usual main concept of Eat, Sleep and Exercise better, with the added idea of ‘Understand your Feels’ thrown in. Some guy did mean experiments on dogs. There was a Harry Potter referenc......more

Goodreads review by Grace

Amazing book! If you can’t make it to one of his courses this book takes you through everything and more. Highly recommend.......more

Decent Lots of good info in here (less so for neurodivergent folks, particularly when discussing habits and relationships) but nothing truly different or remarkable as compared to other books of this nature. I do like that the resource materials are included within the text rather than a separate it......more

Goodreads review by Kiri

I really enjoyed this book. I read/listened to the audio version. It was very easy to understand, repetitive enough that the theories sunk in, and provided some new concepts I hadnt previously come across. I also really enjoyed his personal stories jotted throughout and the examples of application.......more

Goodreads review by Renee

I enjoyed this book and it taught me some tools to putin my mental health toolbox but some of it felt repetitive so it took longer than usual to finish.......more