Definition of resilience
Resilience is ability to recover and bounce back from failure or other difficult situation.
Psychologists define resilience as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress—such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors. As much as resilience involves “bouncing back” from these difficult experiences, it can also involve profound personal growth. This is definition on apa.org. Read more in their article about building resilience.
This article is also interesting: What is resilience?
There are plenty of videos on YouTube about resilience.
Resilience quotes
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Nelson Mandela
Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up. Mary Holloway
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Sheryl Sandberg
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas Edison
Resilience tools
- Extensive resources with resilience building tools and exercises
- You can download Resilience & Wellbeing Toolkit here.
- Snapping fingers
- Superbetter videogame (app) for building resilence
How to bounce back from failure?
You can find plenty of articles on internet about methods to use:
In article How to Bounce Back From Failure you can read how to learn from your mistakes, encourage yourself to find a solution that will work and to let failures be your opportunities.
There is another article about methods people use to bounce back from failure. It is important to forgive yourself for mistakes you made and find hope.
Another interesting article about bouncing back that include four question to ask yourself.
Here is an article with tips for overcome failure.
And remember: nothing lasts forever.
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