Andrew Bernstein has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is Heroes, Legends, Champions.
The Myth of Stress
Summary
Where does stress come from? Financial pressures? Looming deadlines? Conflicts at work or at home? For more than half a century, we’ve been told that stress comes from circumstances like these, that it’s a by-product of our ancestors’ fight-or-flight response to danger, and that the best we can do, given the fast pace of life today, is to breathe, try to relax, and accept that life is hard. All of this, according to Andrew Bernstein, is wrong. Spurred by the death of several family members when he was young, Bernstein began a quest to understand the real dynamics of stress and resilience. He eventually realized that stress doesn’t come from your circumstances—it comes from your thoughts about your circumstances. More specifically, stress is created by a particular kind of thought that humans happen to excel at. Seeing this, Bernstein realized that the antidote to stress—and the key to far greater resilience—is not exercise or physical relaxation, but finding these stress-producing thoughts and finally dismantling them. He created a process called ActivInsight that helps you—and the people you care about—do this on your own in just seven steps, often yielding life-changing breakthroughs in a matter of minutes. Bernstein has been teaching ActivInsight to great acclaim in schools, not-for-profits, and Fortune 500 companies since 2004. Now he shares this technique for the first time with a wider audience. In The Myth of Stress, you will experience the surprising power of this new approach for yourself as you apply ActivInsight to a wide variety of today’s most common challenges, including: weight loss money success interpersonal conflict addiction traffic divorce heartbreak discrimination anger uncertaintyabout the future loss of a loved one and more
©2010 Andrew Bernstein (P)2010 Simon & Schuster
Breaking the Stress Cycle
Summary
A revolutionary seven-step program that will help change how you think about stress and show you how to easily transform and eliminate stressful thoughts from your personal and professional life. Where does stress come from? Financial worries? Health issues? Conflicts at work or at home? For more than half a century, we’ve been told that stress is caused by outside pressures and that the best we can do is to breathe, try to relax, and accept that life is hard. According to Andrew Bernstein, this is all wrong. Spurred by the death of several family members when he was young, Bernstein began a quest to understand the real dynamics of stress and resilience, and discovered that stress doesn’t come from your circumstances - it comes from your thoughts about your circumstances. Consequently, the true antidote to stress is not exercise or physical relaxation, but uncovering these stress-producing thoughts and dismantling them. Bernstein created a simple seven-step process that helps you do this faster, often with life-changing results. In Breaking the Stress Cycle, Bernstein shares solutions for how to stop managing stress and break the cycle of ups and downs at its source. Guided worksheets and step-by-step coaching show you how to reframe your thinking on relationships, money, work-life balance, weight loss, discrimination, regret, grief, and more. With compassion, intelligence, and humor, Breaking the Stress Cycle offers a complete re-education in the nature of stress, and can permanently change the way you handle challenges in all areas of your life.
©2021 Andrew Bernstein (P)2021 Simon & Schuster Audio
Heroes, Legends, Champions
Summary
This is not a self-help book. Its purpose is not to tell us how to apply the lessons of a hero's life in our own. Rather, it is a theoretical book, explaining what heroes are and why mankind needs them. Before we can emulate heroes, we must properly identify them. We must understand who and what they are...and what they are not. This is a matter of life and death. Some persons, for example, at various times have considered Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Osama bin Laden as heroes. If we are to promote human life, it is necessary for us to clearly understand that and why mass murderers are definitively excluded from the echelon of heroes. Chapters one, two, and three focus on the nature and definition of a hero, and provide a method for distinguishing a hero from non-heroes. Chapter four raises the question of whether, under appropriate circumstances, everyman and everywoman can rise to heroic heights - and answers in the affirmative. Chapters five, six, and seven dispute the time-honored notion that heroism involves self-sacrifice and demonstrate, rather, that heroism, properly understood, involves actions self-fulfilling; heroism and self-sacrifice are, in fact, moral antipodes. Chapter eight discusses an appropriate response to morally flawed heroes - and chapter nine explains the errors of the modern antihero mentality. Finally, chapter ten tells us about the life-giving importance of hero worship. The two appendices validate philosophic principles that underlie the theory of heroes elucidated here: Human life is the standard of moral value and human beings possess free will. This book does not purport to be an exhaustive analysis of a hero's nature. Presumably, there is more to be said. But it is a provocative first step toward understanding the nature of heroes, one that will hopefully spark a lively 21st-century debate of this important subject.
©2019 Andrew Bernstein (P)2020 Andrew Bernstein