More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. – Dean Becker
Dean Becker, president & CEO, Adaptiv Learning Systems
Takeaways of Note:
3 Building Blocks of Resilience…
1- staunch acceptance of reality …down-to-earth views of what matters for survival; optimism balanced with a cool sense of reality (training selves how to survive before the fact)
2- deep belief that life is meaningful …make meaning of terrible times in order to reconstruct suffering; bridge present-day hardships to a fuller, better future (making the present manageable & removing the sense of it being overwhelming)
3- uncanny ability to improvise …make do with whatever is at hand – a kind of inventiveness to improvise a solution to a problem without obvious tools (imagining possibilities where others are confounded)
bonus nuggets:
You can bounce back from hardship with just one or two of these qualities, but you will only be truly resilient with all three. These three characteristics hold true for resilient organizations as well.
Resilience is… the skill and the capacity to be robust under conditions of enormous stress and change.