Upshift, 9780008498313
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Unlock your hidden potential: Navigate crisis and transform your life.

Upshift

turning pressure into performance and crisis into creativity

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    15 February 2023

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Summary

Upshift: Harnessing the Power of Positive Stress for Innovation and Resilience

When we experience too much stress, we often feel like shutting down and escaping the source. Neurologists call this ‘downshifting’, where your thinking shifts from the cognitive and creative areas in the brain to the domains associated with survival. But with too little stress, we become disengaged and apathetic. So what happens in the middle zone – when we experience what psychologists call positive str…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780008498313
ISBN-10:0008498318
Author:Ben Ramalingam
Publisher:Harpercollins Publishers
Imprint:William Collins
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:15 February 2023
Weight:270g
Dimensions:153mm x 234mm
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‘A reassuring guide to empowerment’ Kirkus

About The Author

Ben Ramalingam

Ben Ramalingam is an independent researcher, consultant and writer specialising on international development and humanitarian issues. He has worked with and advised leading development and humanitarian organisations including UN bodies, NGOs, the Red Cross movement, and government agencies. He holds honorary positions at the London School of Economics, the Overseas Development Institute, and the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University.

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