#389: Everything You Need to Know About You and Resilience

Introduction

In today's "People Skills" newsletter, we're featuring 10 videos on one of the most important qualities needed to succeed in both work and life: resilience.

In this collection, you'll learn that, when you need to create something challenging, there is as much chance of failure as there is of success. Success, of course, is easy. But failure isn't. That's why, to succeed in anything worthwhile at work or in life, you need to be able to bounce back and move on with courage.

So, in this selection, we have brought together some of the top experts in this topic, including Jacob Morgan, Prince Ea, and Mike Clayton, to show you how to excel at resilience.

01. "What is Mental Toughness and Where Can I Get Some?" from The Art of Improvement

Research into athletes’ mindsets can help every person become psychologically stronger.

02. "How Do You Respond When Bad Things Happen?" from Jacob Morgan

Bad things can happen to anyone at any time. These can be work-related or personal. Oftentimes you can't control them, but you can control how you respond.

03. "Resilience - 3 Qualities of Titans" from Conor Neill

Resilience or Mental Toughness is the capacity of some people to stay strong in the difficult times, when challenges abound, when they receive the blows of life. Some fall apart and cannot function, whilst a few stay strong and find the path through. What are the 3 tools of mentally tough people?

04. "GRIT - Traits That Matter for School, Work, or Life" from Sprouts

Learn how grit, a blend of passion and perseverance, drives success in this 3:51 minute video lesson.

05. "There Is No Such Thing as Bad Weather..." from Mike Clayton

The great Scottish comedian, Billy Connolly, said 'There’s no such thing as bad weather. Just the wrong clothes.' [Note after recording: I subsequently learned that this is also a Norwegian proverb. Sorry, Norway.] In this short, bite-size video, I reflect on what that quote means for project managers and the discipline of Project Management.

06. "Project Management and GRIT" from Mike Clayton

The idea of Grit as a personal quality has become popular, due to the work of researcher, Angela Lee Duckworth. And especially due to her massively popular TED talk and the book she followed it up with, called... 'Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance'.

Angela defines Grit as: ‘Perseverance and passion for long term goals.’

07. "What is Stoicism? - A Basic Overview" from Practical Psychology

Focus on things you can control. Things that can't be controlled we just have to put on the back burner.

08. "What Stops You From Being Resilient?" from Positive Revolution

Many people are not able to bounce back from their tragedies and failures because of the addictions they develop to numb their pain, be it alcohol or other substances. Using intoxicating agents reduces our capacity to bounce back. If we can stay in a rational state of mind, we can figure out and use our natural instincts of resilience to overcome any challenges.

09. "A Life-Changing Way of Looking at an Orange" from Prince Ea

When life squeezes you, what comes out?

10. "Developing Personal Resilience at Work" from Galen Emanuele

How to develop personal resilience at work and over the course of your career. That means how to ask for a raise, how to ask for more money, how to ask for a promotion, how to bounce back from tough feedback, and how to go after what you want.

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