The bestselling author of How to Escape from Prison,
prisoner-turned-psychologist Paul Wood on developing the mental strength
and fitness to take on all of life's challenges
Getting and staying mentally fit, just like getting and maintaining a
high level of physical fitness, involves hard work, effort, and
consistency. Our level of mental fitness determines how effectively we
can flourish through adversity, realise our potential, and be happier
with our lives - regardless of what the universe has in store.
We all know about mental stress (or we think we do). We've definitely
all experienced it, and none of us like it. Yet this is not a threat to
be avoided. Mental stress is perfectly analogous to physical stress: it
is the mind's way of telling us that what we are attempting to perform
is challenging our resource. This is a catalyst for growth, and a sign
we are pursuing our potential. When we experience stress, we have a
choice: we can heed that signal and give up - after all, we're meant to
stay in our psychic comfort zone all the time, right? Or we can
recognise the discomfort we are feeling is simply nature's way of
enabling us to rise to the occasion.
In Mental Fitness you will learn how to:
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Increase your mental fitness, just as you would increase your physical
fitness
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Get closer to your potential by working proactively to maintain your
mental fitness
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Experience the right level of stress (this is what makes us get
fitter)
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Cope effectively for longer before you get fatigued or exhausted (it
doesn't mean you don't feel the struggle)
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Pay attention to the indicators of fatigue to avoid burnout and
unnecessary misery
