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Brad Stulberg discusses his book Master of Change: how to navigate life's inevitable transitions by embracing rugged flexibility — the combination of stability and adaptability that characterizes resilient people.
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Stulberg explicitly connects rugged flexibility to Stoic philosophy: the dichotomy of control applied to life transitions. External changes are uncontrollable; your response to them is controllable. The optimal response is rugged flexibility.
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Rugged flexibility combines core stability with peripheral adaptability — you need a stable foundation (values, identity, practices) from which to adapt to changing circumstances
Stulberg presents rugged flexibility: being rigid breaks you (you cannot adapt to change). Being purely flexible leaves you groundless (you have nothing stable to orient from). The combination — a stable core of values with flexible strategies — produces resilience.Was this useful?