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| Preface: We Surely All Will Die | |
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| An Eskimo on the Titanic | |
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| Dangerous Waters | |
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| Sailors and Paddlers: Your Real Job Is Change | |
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| The Limits of Flat-Water Thinking | |
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| Working the Eddies: Pace Yourself to Preserve Your Sanity | |
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| All Hands on Deck | |
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| We Are Drowning in Change | |
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| The Impact of Exhaustion | |
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| Strategies for Pacing | |
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| Create a "Not To Do" List | |
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| Build Breaks in the Action | |
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| Get Good Sleep | |
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| Take a Nap | |
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| Enforce Vacations | |
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| Avoid the Perils of the Crazy Brave and Phony Tough | |
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| Keep a Roll in Reserve | |
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| Mastering the Roll: Prepare to Fail Gracefully and Recover Quickly | |
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| Failure Is the Only Option | |
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| Strategies for Failing Quickly and Recovering Gracefully | |
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| Treat Your Career as a Series of Experiments | |
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| Minimize the Risk of Failure | |
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| Master the Emotions of Failure | |
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| Practice Failing | |
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| Prepare to Learn from Failure | |
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| Make Your Mistakes on the Move | |
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| Failing and Play | |
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| The Power of Play: Optimism and Resilience | |
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| The Play's the Thing | |
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| The Power of Optimism | |
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| Strategies for Unsinkable Optimism | |
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| Create Optimism and Avoid Learned Helplessness | |
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| When All Else Fails, Paddle Like Hell | |
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| Choose Your Equipment for the Right Level of Fun | |
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| Patience: Keep Your Feet Up and Go With the Flow | |
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| Recharge by Paddling | |
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| Create Time and Space for Play | |
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| Cultivate Exuberance | |
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| Personal Flotation: You Are Responsible for Your Own Security | |
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| Sink or Swim | |
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| Strategies for Personal Flotation | |
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| Learn Self-Rescue by Developing Your "Brand You" | |
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| Build a Portfolio of Projects | |
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| Practice Your Offiside Roll: Cultivate Diverse Skills to Increase Maneuverability | |
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| Create Strong Networks | |
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| Take Care of Your Health | |
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| Alone in a Tight Place | |
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| Scouting and Portaging: Set Your Own Course | |
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| Meaning Is Local | |
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| Get Out When You Hear the Roarof the Falls | |
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| Strategies for Scouting and Portaging | |
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| Listen to the River: Read the Water | |
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| Develop Your Intuition and Then Listen to It | |
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| Listen to Others: Learn from Reports of Fellow Travelers | |
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| Know When To Portage | |
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| Recognize When You Are Drowning | |
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| Listen to Your Heart | |
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| When in Doubt, Scout | |
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| The Phoenix | |
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| Rising Above the Roar: Communicate Through Symbols | |
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| Strategies for Communicating Above the Roar | |
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| Actions Speak Louder Than Words | |
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| Maintain a Line of Sight | |
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| Never Risk a Lie-Even Unintentionally | |
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| Ensure Two-Way Communication | |
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| Create Space to Grieve: Funerals, Irish Wakes, Slicing Nursing Stations, and Other Symbolic Events | |
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| Make Sense of What Happened: Share Stories Around the Fire | |
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| Use Myths to Create Meaning | |
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| Use Metaphors | |
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| Finding Meaning and Shaping a Legacy | |
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| Building Flocks: Teaming for Today's Run | |
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| Murmurations of Starlings: Teams Have a Life of Their Own | |
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| Strategies for Teaming | |
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| Know What You Bring to the Team | |
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| Know Your Teammates | |
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| Become Skilled at Entering and Leaving Teams | |
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| Find Safety in Numbers | |
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| Understand What Game You Are Playing | |
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| Choose the Right Vessel | |
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| Understand the Working of Teams | |
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| The Power of the Team | |
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| Leading Trips: Guiding Through Permanent Whitewater | |
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| Leading in Permanent Whitewater | |
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| Understand Power and Influence on the River | |
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| Build Trust | |
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| Stepping Aside: Manage Shifting Roles | |
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| Enabling Leaders and Following Followers: Stepping Up to Leadership | |
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| Assembling the Right Team | |
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| Structuring the Team | |
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| Humility and the Art of Leading from Behind | |
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| Conclusion, What Conclusion? | |
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| Building the G-Rig | |
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| The Rivers Are Rising | |
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| No Place to Hide-But Why Would You Want To? | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Index | |