Excepting adversity and moving on isn’t easy and can…

Excepting adversity and moving on isn’t easy and can take time. You don’t have to like or somehow justify what happened. You just have to decide that you can live with it. Pretty early on, I decided that I could live without the use of my legs, which was just as well, because I couldn’t change the past. Better to focus on things over which I did have some control, for example how would I move on and live a full life.

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Mental Toughness by HBR

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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. Acceptance is part of it — and acceptance does not mean you have to like what happened or justify it; it only means deciding you can live with it, and then turning your attention to what you can still control. Build your anchor before the storm: a vision of a life worth living, already on board, that can hold you the day your heart breaks. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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