Brazilian people, they pose it, possess, great characteristics, acceptance…

Brazilian people, they pose it, possess, great characteristics, acceptance of reality, a deep belief, often buttress by strongly held values that life is meaningful and an uncanny ability to improvise. You can bounce back from hardship with just one or two of these qualities, but you will only be truly resilient with all right. resilient companies are filled with optimistic people.

— 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. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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