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Skill 1 for Professionals: Tactical Calm
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Skill 1 for Professionals: Tactical Calm

Dr Sven Hansen

Cognitive flexibility and mastering worry
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Cognitive flexibility and mastering worry

Dr Sven Hansen

Impulse control and emotional regulation
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Impulse control and emotional regulation

Dr Sven Hansen

Skill 2 for Professionals: Rhythm
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Skill 2 for Professionals: Rhythm

Dr Sven Hansen

Burnout: diagnosis or psyop?
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Burnout: diagnosis or psyop?

Dr Sven Hansen

Peptides: should we?
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Peptides: should we?

Dr Sven Hansen

Kindness is a performance skill
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Kindness is a performance skill

Dr Sven Hansen

Writing

Insights on resilience, stress and performance

23 July 2026

7 Steps for Leaders to Beat the Overload Tax and Reclaim Attention

Our minds remain the most extraordinary product of evolution. But overload is creating a deeper inequality between those who protect their cognitive capacity and those who don't.

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30 June 2026

Empathy or professional discomfort avoidance?

Your child melts down. You want to be a good parent so you feel their distress acutely. You give them a treat to make it stop. The child learns to manipulate you, and a vicious cycle ensues. That cycle starts with not knowing the difference between empathy, sympathy, and altruism.

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25 May 2026

The neurobiology of play

The instinct to play is ingrained and it may be the portal into your best work yet.

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25 May 2026

Why high performers end up listless, directionless, and blaming the job (it's not the job)

So many people have given up on fulfilment. They clip the ticket, get through the day. They do not have time to define their purpose or seek “fulfilment”. But fulfilment matters - more than most people realise.

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20 May 2026

Stop the 6,200 Daily Thoughts Wrecking Your Life

The mind generates some 6,200 discrete thoughts per day. Most of this mental chatter is wrecking your life. Master your mind under pressure in 4 learnable steps.

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Dr Sven Hansen

Research, insights, and writing from the founder of the Resilience Institute.

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Dr Sven Hansen

Videos on resilience science, human performance, and the methodology behind the work.

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Books by Dr Sven Hansen

The science behind the practice

Both books are available in print and e-book on Amazon.

Rhythm

2022

Rhythm

64 practical drills to improve our capacity to Bounce, Grow, Connect and Flow using modern neurobiology.

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Inside-Out: The Practice of Resilience

2015

Inside-Out: The Practice of Resilience

The foundational text. Focuses on building resilience from the foundations of physical, emotional and mental skills.

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