Great article in the New York Times about what endurance athletes, such as marathoners, triathletes, and cyclists, can teach us about overcoming the challenges that the COVID-19 crisis has presented to us. Not surprisingly, the suggestions are entirely psychological, related to your attitude and perspective toward the crisis.
I was interviewed yesterday by KWMR public radio about how to deal with the psychological, emotional, and social challenges of the current pandemic. My ideas are based on my 2019 book, How to Survive and Thrive When Bad Things Happen: 9 Steps to Cultivating an Opportunity Mindset in a Crisis and recent blog posts that have [...]
I’m a word guy. My career is grounded in the spoken and written word. As such, I believe in the power of words and that it’s important that the words we use are highly descriptive of what we’re trying to communicate. Words are so powerful because they have meaning. And that meaning acts as the [...]
Episode #20: Short Term to Long Game of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast is the last of four in a series examining how your investment in the crisis determines whether you respond positively or negatively to it. This episode explores how, when a crisis strikes, we’re wired to focus on its short-term consequences. Back when [...]
I was recently interviewed by a Canadian TV show for a segment on how skiers can cope with the current COVID-19 crisis and keep their "head in the game" during the downtime. The segment also includes Canadian Brady Leman, the 2018 Olympic Champion in skicross and Max Gartner, a long-time ski industry leader. The segment [...]
The COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented in its impact on all of us. It has put the physical and financial lives of billions of people around the world at risk, not only in the short run, but, in all likelihood, for many years to come. The pandemic is truly a once-in-a-lifetime (hopefully) experience. Though the crisis [...]
Let me begin with a question: In what way, shape, or form could the COVID-19 crisis be seen as a personal growth opportunity? At first blush, you would probably say, “Absolutely no way!” I mean, really, the current pandemic has created crises of health and financial markets that are disrupting the lives of almost everyone [...]
The Saturday Evening Post published my latest column, Survival vs. Thrival with COVID-19. My column explores how our primitive instincts, which served us so well since we first became homo sapiens more than 250,000 years ago, actually prevent us from surviving modern-day crises such as the current COVID-19 outbreak that is sweeping the world. I [...]
This new series of blog posts is based on my book, How to Survive and Thrive When Bad Things Happen: Nine Steps to Cultivating an Opportunity Mindset in a Crisis. We all have and will continue to experience crises in our lives; that’s just part of the human condition. So, it’s not a question of [...]
