scaffolding is what psychologist offer to boost resilience

scaffolding is what psychologist offer to boost resilience. It generally comes from other people. The idea comes from people with relevant experience and expertise. Scaffolding provides looks and feels different depending on the type of challenge you’re facing, but it has the same effect of giving us a foothold or a boost. Scaffolding is tailored to the obstacle in your path. Scaffolding is temporary it doesn’t take a lifetime of therapy to recover Playing for just 10 minutes can help you move forward.

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Great Things by Adam Grant

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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. And do not try to weather everything alone — lean on scaffolding, the foothold offered by people with real experience of what you are facing; it is meant to be temporary, a boost, not a lifetime of leaning. Stock your kit, too, with the habits the resilient rely on. […] 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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