“Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” – Vivian Komori

“Resilience is a muscle” Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant (Option B) 

Resilience is very different from being numb. Resilience means that you experience the pain (of loss, of an event, of chronic illness, or relation challenges), you fail, you hurt but you get up and keep going and in spite of the ups and downs, you bounce back.

Abraham Lincoln said “ I walk slowly but I never walk backwards” 

Brene brown’s research reveals that the most reliant people know how to first identify the stories they are telling themselves about the situation before they work through these stories from beginning, middle to the the end. They have the ability to be honest with themselves and the courage to be honest with others in the process. 

Write down a list of 3 things that did not go well. Now write a brief description of how you bounced back in each situation.What can you learn from this reflection?

“It’s not the mountain we conquer but ourselves” Sir Edmund Hilary 

How do the toughest people summon the will to keep going? 

Steven Southwick and Dennis Charney have studied resilient people for over 20 years. They spoke with Vietnam prisoners of war, Special Forces instructors and civilians who dealt with terrible experiences. In their book The Science of Mastering Life Greatest Challenges, they assemble 10 things resilient people have in common

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Resilient people don’t have jobs — they have callings. They have a mission and purpose in life that gives meaning to the things they do.