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THE PASSION PARADOX

A Guide to Going All In, Finding Success, and Discovering the Benefits of an Unbalanced Life.

Nearly everything you think you know about drive and passion is wrong. Learn how to develop your passion and harness it in productive directions. Control your passion so it doesn't control you.

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  • How to cultivate passion in a way that is sustainable and healthy. (Hint: you don't just magically find your passion!)
  • The relationship between passion, addiction, and mental illness.
  • The difference between harmonious passion (the best kind of passion) and obsessive passion (a destructive force), and how to nurture the former and avoid the latter.
  • The mastery mindset, which ensures you stay passionate about your endeavor without becoming a slave to external results.
  • Focusing on process over outcomes.
  • The illusion of living a perfectly "balanced" life and why passion coupled with self-awareness trumps "balance" any day.
  • Why moving on from a passion can be so hard and tips on how to do so with grace and grit.
  • And so much more...

HOW TO BUY THE PASSION PARADOX

A valuable volume about finding and embracing passion, avoiding burnout, and carefully navigating an unbalanced life.
—Publisher's Weekly

This thoughtful, immediately readable book shows how to manage passion so it brings out the best in us rather than the worst in us.

—Adam Grant. New York Times bestselling author of GIVE AND TAKE and ORIGINALS

Should we throw everything to the wind and follow our passions? Or should we strive for balance and let our passions cool? This book offers the surprising, nuanced, and research-backed answer.
—Daniel H. Pink, Bestselling author of When and Drive

I feel like this book was written for me. I had to resist underlining every sentence.
—Shalane Flanagan. New York City Marathon Champion, Four-Time Olympian, and New York Times bestselling author

Praise for The Passion Paradox

“Passion is a roller coaster ride that can send us on a sudden, precipitating plunge from the heights of happiness to the depths of despair.  This thoughtful, immediately readable book shows how to manage passion so it brings out the best in us rather than the worst in us.“

Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals

"Passion. The topic is sparking conversations at work, at school, and at home. Should we throw everything to the winds and follow our passion? Or should we strive for balance and let our passions cool? In THE PASSSION PARADOX, Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness offer the surprising, nuanced, and research-backed answer. This super-smart, must-read book will teach you how to find and fuel your passion without burning up or burning out."

Daniel H. Pink, Bestselling author of WHEN and DRIVE

“I feel like this book was written for me. I had to resist underlining every sentence."

Shalane Flanagan, NYC Marathon Champion, Four Time Olympian,  and NY Times bestselling author. 

"The Passion Paradox brings together multiple angles to peer over the edge at something difficult to grasp but incredibly important to people."

David Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of The Sports Gene