7 Mentally Tough People on the Tactics They Use to Build Resilience

Johnson says there's an important distinction between listening to yourself and talking to yourself. You should avoid the former and encourage the latter. When you listen to yourself, you hear all the negativity and all the reasons why you can't go on, she says, but when you talk to yourself, you can tell yourself the things you need to hear in ord

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Don't mistake your reality as the only truth: When Westover was growing up, she considered her father's opinion as "the truth." After she began to attend school, she realized that there is no universal, absolute truth. Our version of the world is not the only version — it is simply one of many, many perspectives. It takes strength and cou

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