Fear Is Fuel: The Surprising Power to Help You Find Purpose, Passion, and Performance
Autor Patrick Sweeney IIen Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 feb 2020
Recomandăm Fear Is Fuel tuturor celor care simt că anxietatea sau prudența excesivă au devenit frâne în evoluția lor profesională sau personală. În loc să ne propună eliminarea fricii — un mecanism biologic ancestral și esențial — Patrick Sweeney II ne invită să o reîncadrăm ca pe o resursă energetică. Credem că abordarea sa este extrem de valoroasă deoarece nu se bazează doar pe motivație, ci pe date solide din neuroștiință, explicând cum putem „reinstala” circuitele mentale pentru a trece de ceea ce el numește „Frontiera Fricii”.
Pe aceeași linie cu FEARVANA de Akshay Nanavati, acest volum explorează transformarea fricii în extaz și performanță, dar cu un accent pe aplicabilitatea practică în mediul de business și în sportul de elită. Cartea este structurată logic în două părți: prima explorează „alfabetizarea” în domeniul fricii, culminând cu Metoda BASE, în timp ce a doua parte se concentrează pe arhitectura curajului, oferind inclusiv un plan pentru crearea unei culturi a curajului la locul de muncă. Apreciem în mod deosebit modul în care autorul integrează 22 de casete cu text și numeroase tabele care transformă conceptele abstracte în exerciții concrete. Spre deosebire de Life Unlocked, care se axează pe deblocarea psihologică generală, Fear Is Fuel are un ritm mai alert și un ton orientat spre acțiune, fiind ghidul ideal pentru cei care vor să își depășească limitele fizice și mentale.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1538134411
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 14 BW Illustrations, 3 Tables, 22 Textboxes
Dimensiuni: 142 x 222 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States
De ce să citești această carte
Dacă simțiți că vă lipsește acel impuls pentru a face următorul pas în carieră sau în viața personală, Fear Is Fuel vă oferă instrumentele necesare. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă biologică asupra propriilor temeri și învață să le folosească pentru a-și crește inteligența emoțională. Este o lectură utilă pentru lideri și sportivi care vor să transforme stresul în performanță de vârf.
Descriere
Most of us know fear as the unwanted force that drives phobias, anxieties, unhappiness, and inhibits self-actualization. Ironically, fear is the underlying phenomenon that heightens awareness and optimizes physical performance, and can drive ambition, courage, and success. Harnessing fear can heighten emotional intelligence and bring success to every aspect of your life.
Neuroscience and current research on how the brain processes and uses fear have torn the lid off the possibilities of human performance; yet most people are not reaching their complete potential because of a psychological roadblock Sweeney calls the Fear Frontier. Identifying your Fear Frontier and addressing it, Sweeney illustrates in these pages, is the path to success, happiness and fulfillment in almost all aspects of your life. He also provides the most effective steps toward rewiring your mind for a healthier longer life based on courage.
Fear is Fuel is a practical guide that instructs readers on a unique path toward translating fear into optimal living. By facing fears, and challenging new ones, readers can harness the power of unique motivations to achieve more, experience more, and enjoy more. The path to a fulfilling life is not to avoid fear but to recognize it, understand it, harness it, and unleash its power.
Cuprins
Eight Tips to Get the Most Out of This Book
PART I: FEAR
1 Fear Fluency
2 Forget What You Think
3 Fear Tells You About You
4 The Root of All Fears
5 The Faces of Fear
6 Scare Yourself
7 The BASE Method
PART II: COURAGE
8 The Courage Conundrum
9 Share Together or Fear Apart
10 The Best Decision You'll Never Make
11 Blueprint for Bravery
12 Creating a Culture of Courage at Work
13 The Big Squeeze
Conclusion: The Value of Courage
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author
Recenzii
Doing things that scare you has to be the most powerful way to continually evolve. "Fear is Fuel" provides a thoughtful and fascinating perspective on how to harness something that is potentially negative - and use it for good.
Patrick Sweeney's Fear is Fuel unlocks the deep mystery of fear that has prevented so many from achieving their dreams. No longer do we need to be paralyzed by our fears. Patrick provides the formula for rewriting our past experiences and emotions with images of courage and conquest. "Believing" is the first step to overcoming...no more excuses!
Fear Is Fuel laid out for me a new path around achieving outstanding success and creating a hero's journey. It got me thinking differently. The book combines engaging story telling along with research to give readers the needed life tools to help them become a real life Spartan Warrior! I learned a ton!
Fear Is Fuel is a mindset-shifting must-read. Patrick Sweeney takes us through a journey that makes embracing fear one of our best friends for personal and professional development.
Fear is a physiological and behavioral response selected by evolution to ensure our survival, but can be strongly debilitating in certain conditions. In this assay, through autobiographical and celebrity examples of fear management, Patrick Sweeney highlights that understanding the brain circuits underlying fear might be a path to transcend ourselves through this emotion.
In Fear is Fuel, Patrick Sweeney takes something we all feel, and are ashamed of, and shows us how we can use it for personal growth and development. It's not just about surmounting your fears, it's about using them to learn more about who you are and how you can change . Sweeney has stories to tell - his own and others - and he backs these up with wide-ranging research as well as practical exercises. Education, which means 'leading out', is about helping others go beyond their fears - educators will find lots to draw on in this compelling book.
Patrick Sweeney looks the part - physically fit, strong, confident, energetic, clear-eyed and surely, you would think to look at him, fearless. Penned by a successful athlete, entrepreneur, innovator and business executive, this book might easily have been just another one of those "emulate me" personal success manuals that the rest of us may be inspired by and aspire to, but in our heart of hearts know that in reality it is extremely unlikely that we can ever be that person. It would be a mistake to dismiss Fear is the Fuel in this way. True, Sweeney had many of the visible trappings of success already. But in Fear is the Fuel, he has documented his personal journey from hard earned success, to confronting his mortality, inner fears and demons, through an exploration and discovery of insights and powerful ideas and techniques that anyone can implement, starting right now. He promises to help us not overcome, but rather harness our basic human physiological and neurological responses. Sweeney sought out scientific expertise and practitioner experience, added his own interpretation, and enlivened the ideas with personal narrative and compelling stories from human history. He has managed to produce a book that you can read (avidly) from cover to cover, or dive in and out of, following your nose through the theories and practices he espouses in almost any order you like. There are useful gems for everyone in Fear is the Fuel, and overall a coherent thesis that adds color and practical advice to help us take back control of our neurophysiological selves, achieve greater performance, purpose and personal fulfillment.
In Fear is Fuel Sweeney provides a powerful balance of neuroscience and engaging stories to prove how we can all face down our fear wolf. Using his techniques anyone can learn the courage that is the foundation of a warrior's spirit.