Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success
For many of us, the world we live in seems broken, but change is easier than we think. Learn from the first-hand experiences shared by the authors of their work helping to transform communities, businesses and millions of lives around the world.
Ungar challenges the dominant narrative of self‑help culture—the idea that resilience and success stem solely from personal grit, mindset, or meditation. Instead, he builds on decades of resilience research to show that one’s environment and the availability of culturally meaningful resources are far more critical than individual traits.Change Your World doesn’t offer a formula for flipping your mindset—it offers something more radical: recalibrating how we understand resilience. It reveals that thriving depends less on internal toughness and more on the relationships, institutions, and communities that support us. While it may feel academically dense at times and light on step‑by‑step guidance, the clarity of perspective Ungar offers is a powerful antidote to individual‑centric resilience narratives.
Rating: 3.5 to 4 out of 5 stars
Recommended if you’re interested in resilience through a socio-ecological lens—or if you're skeptical of self-help rhetoric and want a richly researched alternative grounded in social work and global studies.
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thegreenone SmithToronto
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Jenny Putz New York
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piccolino25 CoxPasadena
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Tom Lazcovitz SummersMelbourne
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clar RobinsonWilmington
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Christine LazcovitzNew Orleans
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