Often when we think of resilience we think about "bouncing back." But there's more to resilience than just recovering after challenging events. Resilience is how we persevere through adversity and handle problems in the moment. It's closely connected to our ability to regulate our emotions, see the bigger picture, be flexible in our thinking.
As we had our discussion we began to realize that a big component of resilience is separating who we are from what we do. When we attribute our successes and failures to simply being part of who we are, we end up not taking responsibility for our actions. This can cause us to give up more easily and reinforces the negative mindset that things should just be easy.
Make sure you tune in for the whole episode as Mandy details some of her difficulties with resilience, and we each discuss how our childhood struggles affected our capacity for resilience later in life.
*Books mentioned in the episode
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Music By: Pangolin
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