Energy Game by Amantha Imber

Have you ever fantasised about getting sick? Not seriously, but just enough to justify a week in bed with no responsibilities and no one able to reach you? 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 companies like Google, Apple and Disney on productivity and wellbeing, she couldn’t get through a single morning without negotiating with her snooze button.

The problem wasn’t her schedule. It was her energy. And no number of colour-coded calendars or 12-step morning routines could save her when her energy accounts (physical, mental and emotional) were all overdrawn before the workday even began. Sound familiar?

Drawing on cutting-edge science and more than 50 research-backed challenges, The Energy Game gives you a system for rebuilding your energy without a wellness retreat, a life overhaul or giving up the things that make life worth living.

Discover your energy type, then choose your challenges across three areas-
– Boost- Fast power-ups for when you’re running low but still need to show up
– Rest- Proper recovery that goes beyond sleep – and doesn’t require doing nothing
– Protect- Smarter boundaries so you stop haemorrhaging energy before it’s gone.

Most challenges take just minutes. All of them are grounded in science. And none of them require you to be a different kind of person.

The Energy Game is for everyone who’s tired of being tired.

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.

07 Jul 2026
 

The Energy Game: A Science-backed System to Recharge Without Pressing Pause on Life by Amantha Imber ISBN 9781761356452