Resilience – How to bring your best through the worst
summary
Practical steps for staying effective under sustained resistance: defines resilience as active adaptation (not just toughness), contrasts robustness with antifragility, and argues resilience waxes and wanes with resources. Shows tools that were built and used: the SuperBetter app and the TrashTag movement as examples, and exercises like Seligman/REBT-style dispute work, gratitude journaling, pre-mortems, deliberate divergent thinking and Pomodoro-style focused iterations. Surprising claim: a tardigrade endures but a cat adapts, so adaptability beats mere survival.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:25Story Building
- 6:37What is resilience
- 10:49Active dynamic interaction with adversity
- 13:05Perma
- 17:05Meaning
- 18:55Jane McGonigal
- 20:06Maslows Hierarchy
- 21:25Maintaining Perspective
- 22:15NeuroLinguistic Programming
- 23:33Seligman Exercise
- 29:19The Hedonic Treadmill
- 31:18Gratitude Journaling
- 32:32Gratitude retrospectives
- 33:46Adaptive thinking
- 36:58Barriers to resilience
- 38:29Conclusions
