resilience

Showing Up

November 3, 2012

This week has been full of lessons, and depending on when I posted I could have shared lessons about death, presumption, righteousness, fear, shame, pride, and a few other uplifting-not topics. I know I’ve been quiet this week – partly out of respect for Hurricane Sandy and the struggles of so many on the East [...]

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I Should Have Hated School

October 22, 2012

That I didn’t end up hating school is part miracle, part upbringing, and part a testament to the power of intermittent random reinforcement. That I had to work really hard to cut to a blog-suitable number the stories I could have told illustrating this point is a testament to the fact that there were far [...]

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A Fortune Cookie - Friday's Life Lesson

October 19, 2012

This week’s life lesson: pay attention to fortune cookies.  The non-tongue-in-cheek version is: pay attention to the little things, because you never know where, or when, you’ll hear the message, or meet the person, or experience a moment, that will change your direction or inspire you to greatness. This week’s moment for me came Thursday [...]

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Family, the Ultimate Renewable Resource

October 17, 2012

Wednesdays are “resource day” here, which got me to considering what that should mean. Usually it will mean a description of a tool I found helpful, or links to cool and interesting sites. Today, though, I’m stuck on that “meaning” thing. [Don't mind me; I'm like that. Some people think I'm obsessive about meaning, but [...]

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Gratitude is the Secret to Increasing Resilience - A Thanksgiving Day Post

November 24, 2011

Today, in the culmination of a series of posts on psychological resilience, I promised a few immediate things that you can do when faced with the inevitable low points in your life. It seems fitting that it will be on Thanksgiving Day that this is published, because it turns out that the “secret spice” that [...]

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Becoming More Resilient - Is There a Secret Sauce?

November 23, 2011

Today’s post is about what we can do to become more resilient psychologically. How to we increase our ability to cope with, and thrive in, adversity? In the first post in the series I asked about the experience of resilience, and in the next I described some of the characteristics of resilience as supported by [...]

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What Makes Us Resilient?

November 21, 2011

re-sil-ience (ri-`zil-yen(t)s) 1 : the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress 2 : an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change In this second post on resilience, I take a slightly more abstract approach to examining the characteristics of [...]

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Resilience - Out of the Ashes

November 18, 2011

Today I am captivated by the idea of resilience, the ability to overcome, bounce back from, or actually thrive after difficulties, trauma, or tragedy. Why are some people able to overcome adversity while others with the same, or maybe fewer, resources are themselves overcome? Why do some of us succumb to the experience of being [...]

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