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The Energy Game

A Science-backed System to Recharge Without Pressing Pause on Life
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Have you ever fantasised about getting sick? Not seriously, but just enough to justify a week in bed with no responsibilities? You're not alone. And you're not broken. You're depleted. In 2024, organisational psychologist and bestselling author Dr Amantha Imber hit rock bottom. Despite two decades... Read More
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Have you ever fantasised about getting sick? Not seriously, but just enough to justify a week in bed with no responsibilities?

You're not alone. And you're not broken. You're depleted.

In 2024, organisational psychologist and bestselling author Dr Amantha Imber hit rock bottom. Despite two decades of consulting to clients like Google, Apple and Disney on productivity and wellbeing, no colour-coded calendar system or morning routine could fix what was wrong. She was completely and utterly burnt out. Sound familiar?

Drawing on cutting-edge science and more than 50 research-backed challenges, The Energy Game gives you a system for rebuilding your vitality without a wellness retreat or life overhaul.

Discover your Energy Type, then choose your challenges:

  • BOOST - Fast power-ups for when you're running low but still need to show up
  • REST - Real recovery that rebuilds you while you're still living your life
  • PROTECT - Smarter boundaries so you stop haemorrhaging energy before it's gone

Grounded in science, most challenges take just minutes. The energy you're after is closer than you think.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761356452

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 July 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 1.0mm

Height: 1.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Dr Amantha Imber is an organisational psychologist and founder of the award-winning behaviour change training company Inventium. She has worked with companies such as Google, Apple, Disney, Lego, Coca-Cola and Microsoft to help boost productivity, innovation and wellbeing. In 2021, Amantha was the first Australian to win the Thinkers50 Innovation Award (described by the Financial Times as the 'Oscars for Management Thinking'). Amantha was also named as one of the Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence. In 2025, Amantha was honoured at the Australian AI Awards, where she won AI Consultant of the Year and the AI Excellence Award - the latter chosen from the highest-scoring individual winners across all categories to recognise the top performer of the year. Amantha is also the host of the number-one ranking business podcast How I Work, which has had over 6 million downloads, where she interviews some of the world's most successful people about their habits, strategies and rituals. Amantha's thoughts have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur and Fast Company, and she is the author of four internationally bestselling books- Time Wise, The Innovation Formula, The Creativity Formula and The Health Habit.

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