Description

With over two decades experience both observing and interpreting how people channel disaster into opportunity in the most extreme circumstances and environments on Earth Ben Ramalingam has a unique vantage point from which to identify the key principles that can enable anyone to use stress as an opportunity for change

In Upshift Ramalingam distils this expertise into an insightful powerful and engaging audiobook that will show you how to reframe your set responses to stress and pressure and instead use them to harness the potential they hold not just for improving your work your relationships and your mindset but for transforming them

Upshift takes listeners on an epic journey from early humans survival of the Ice Age to present times in our inescapable pernicious and evershifting digital landscape You will hear remarkable stories from a vast range of upshiftersall of whom carved new routes around perceived barriers using their powers to upshift Underlying stories of how city commuters navigate train cancellations to how astronauts deal with lifethreatening incidents is one key message We all have the power to innovate whether or not we identify ourselves as creative or extraordinary

Maybe youre the challenger who thrives by constructively disrupting the status quo like Greta Thunberg Or perhaps you find yourself constantly tweaking prodding breaking rebuilding and improving like crafters such as the team that revolutionized space travel called the NASA Pirates Do you love introducing people whose combined efforts will lead to greater achievements You might be a connector like master networker Ariana Huffington

In a runaway world that is an engine for perpetual crisis Upshift is not only an essential toolkit for survival it is a roadmap for positive and potentially lifechanging transformation and influence You dont have to shut downyou can upshift

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books