HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Tough

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With bonus interview "Post-Traumatic Growth and Building Resilience" with Martin Seligman.

Our professional lives are full of challenges and setbacks, but those who achieve elite performance are able to consistently rally their emotional strength in the pursuit of their goals no matter what gets thrown at them.

If you read nothing else on mental toughness, read these ten articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your emotional strength and resilience, and to achieve high performance.

This book will inspire you to:

Thrive on pressure like an Olympic athlete

Manage and overcome negative emotions by acknowledging them

Plan short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations

Surround yourself with the people who will push you the hardest

Use challenges to become a better leader

Use creativity to move past trauma

Understand the tools your mind uses to recover from setbacks.