A battle-hardened blueprint for overcoming adversity. Because life won’t get easier—but you can get stronger.

Life only gets harder. As time passes, challenges don’t disappear—they evolve. They grow more complex, the stakes rise, and the pressure keeps building. And just when you think you’ve reached the summit and can finally catch your breath, you are greeted by a deeper valley and a steeper, unforgiving mountain ahead. It doesn’t stop. So why should you?

To rise to the challenge of life’s growing hardships, you need to be able to leverage adversity into opportunity and transform pain into progress. The tool that can help you meet this rising intensity head-on is mental toughness. But no one is born mentally tough. It's a muscle you build every day, through endless trials and tribulations. And it’s your responsibility to strengthen it before the next storm hits.

In It Only Gets Harder…, Doron Maman draws on over 15 years of hands-on experience and academic research, working with elite performers, CEOs, top universities, global corporations, and special forces units. This book distills that experience into a practical, transformative framework built around three core pillars of mental toughness:

• Values as Drivers: When you know your core values, you gain a compass that holds steady under pressure with unwavering conviction.
• Acceptance of Challenges: You can’t stop challenges from coming. Accept them fully. Feel pain without letting it turn into suffering.
• Unshakeable Self-Confidence: Trust your ability to adapt and endure—even when everything else is falling apart.

Backed by science and delivered through gripping narratives and hard-won lessons, It Only Gets Harder… is the field manual for anyone determined to rise through both the voluntary and imposed adversity life is bound to bring.