resilience
Keely Adler and
resilience
There once was young warrior who had to battle fear.
"How can I defeat you?" she asked.
Fear replied:
My weapons are that I talk fast.
I get very close to your face.
Then you get completely unnerved.
And do whatever I ... See more
Opinion | Stop Resisting Change
nytimes.com
"To thrive in our lifetimes — and not just survive — we need to transform our relationship with change, leaving behind rigidity and resistance in favor of a new nimbleness, a means of viewing more of what life throws at us as something to participate in, rather than fight. We are always shaping and being shaped by change, often at the very same time."
What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness. No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering.
Robert Greenetwitter.com
Gave me the permission to stop second-guessing my commitment to cultivating toughness in myself and others.
The problem (or at least one of the problems) is that the twin edicts to simultaneously optimize your team and life and to be flexible in light of an uncertain future are in opposition to each other. Optimization presumes a kind of certainty about the circumstances one is optimizing for, but that certainty is, more often than not, illusory.