“Resilient” Isn’t the Compliment You Think It Is
Resilience means not having one's morale destroyed by setbacks. Setbacks are inevitable once problems reach a certain size, so if you can't bounce back from them, you can only do good work on a small scale. But resilience is not the same as obstinacy. Resilience means setbacks can't change your morale, not that they can't change your mind.
Paul Graham • The Right Kind of Stubborn
People who maintain optimistic thoughts gain resilience. When they have setbacks, they see the issue as temporary and specific, not permanent and pervasive.
Kristi Hedges • The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others
One way to build resilience is to practice thinking about the temporary nature of most setbacks as a part of how we look at adversity on a daily basis.
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Pushing harder, whether through an increasingly aggressive intervention or through increasingly stressful withholding of natural instincts, is exhausting. Yet, as individuals and organizations, we not only get drawn into compensating feedback, we often glorify the suffering that ensues.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress.
Tamara Phd Rosier • Your Brain's Not Broken
As Diane Coutu so eloquently explains in her luminous “How Resilience Works,” “Resilient people possess three characteristics — a staunch acceptance of reality; a deep belief, often buttressed by strongly held values, that life is meaningful; and an uncanny ability to improvise. You can bounce back from hardship with just one or two of these qualit
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