Resilience can help you survive and recover from the…

Resilience can help you survive and recover from the even the most brutal experiences to cultivate resilience supply these practices. Face down reality. Search for meaning. Continually improvise .

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · On Managing Yourself by HBR

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There are practices that build the muscle. The resilient, studied closely, do three things: they face down reality squarely, rehearsing survival before the fact rather than denying the danger; they search for meaning in what has happened; and they improvise, making do with whatever is at hand — and you can have one or two of those and bounce back, but you are only truly resilient with all three. The deepest version of this is what one researcher called adaptive capacity: the almost magical ability to transcend adversity, with all its stress, and come out the other side stronger than before. […] Don't make failure plan A. Stay fully committed to the climb — while keeping the honesty to tell a wise change of course from a defeat. Build the muscle. Face reality, search for meaning, and improvise; keep an anchor aboard before the storm; and lean on the scaffolding of people who have been there. Stay adaptable. It is the adaptable who survive; shift to neutral and find the next step when you're stuck. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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