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

his first book came out peak performance which is a great book

and then he wrote the passion paradox and the practice of groundedness we carry both the practice of groundedness

this new book just came out master of change how to excel when everything is changing including you

I'm gonna assume 90% of listeners are familiar with Frankl for the ten who aren't and is briefly as possible Holocaust survivors psychoanalyst has written remarkable books about how to make meaning out of suffer if suffering excuse me and endure Frankl following Mansurge for Meaning wrote this essay that is very little known called the case for tragic optimism in Frankl defines tragic optimism as in acceptance of suffering in life and in a very stoic sense he says that suffering is inevitable for a few reasons

he says you know philosophy philosophers like a ball player that you know you throw them the ball and they throw it back and you throw it back and they throw it back and he says you know a school full ball player doesn't label your throw good or bad they just catch it and throw it back and he sort of label Socrates as the ultimate ball player he sort of deals with everything that life handles hands him with this sort of a plum and vigor and I like that idea of I like that idea applied to change which is like life is throwing stuff at you and you catch it and throw it back and you catch it and throw it back and that's sort of the game like that that that you have agency over how you play yeah but you don't have agency over how other people are playing you don't have agency over the rules be that gravity or mortality or the law