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Discover how expanding and improving your mental agility—your ability to flex your thoughts, feelings, and actions—can transform your life, bolster your resilience, and foster your zest for living. Endless self-help approaches claim to have the answer. It's important to be mindful, we are told, and to stay in the moment. Sometimes, we are advised to keep going no matter what, to be 'gritty'. Others tell us that adopting a 'growth mindset' is key.

Are you optimistic or pessimistic? Glass half-full or half-empty? Do you look on the bright side or turn towards the dark? These are easy questions for most of us to answer, because our personality types are hardwired into our brains. As pioneering psychologist and neuroscientist Elaine Fox has discovered, our outlook on life reflects our primal inclination to seek pleasure or avoid danger - inclinations that, in many people, are healthily balanced. But when our “fear brain” or “pleasure brain” is too strong, the results can be disastrous....

Das Geheimnis mentaler Stärke in einer beschleunigten Welt. Unsere moderne Welt verändert sich permanent und rasend schnell. Die Psychologin und Neurowissenschaftlerin Elaine Fox hat in jahrzehntelanger Forschung herausgefunden, was die Menschen teilen, die trotz steten Wandels erfolgreich und glücklich sind: Ihr gemeinsames Geheimnis ist eine emotionale und kognitive Agilität. Wie man diese Fähigkeit erwirbt, zeigt Fox anhand ihrer bahnbrechenden Erkenntnisse und zahlreicher Fallgeschichten.