Resilience – Learning From Mistakes and Adversity
Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste
The Chinese written character for crisis is actually two characters: danger and opportunity. Resilience is certainly coping effectively with any perceived danger or threat to our safety and well-being, bouncing […]
Find the Gift in the Mistake
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. – Carl G. Jung Not every AFGO – another frickin’ growth opportunity – has a gift hidden within it, but […]
Learning How the Brain Can Work with Mistakes and Failures
When learning how the brain learns, so we can learn how to become more resilient (see RRR post Learning to Work with the Brain to Become More Resilient) it’s not […]
Cats Missing – Panic, Poignancy, Patterns of Coping Re-Surfaced
My two beloved indoor-only cats, Heidi and Kaela, are safe at home now. But when I was teaching back east at the Cape Cod Institute the last week in June, […]
Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life
I’m getting behinder and behinder. Carol Dweck’s paradigm-shifting book Mindset was first published 10 years ago. I read it in one cover-to-cover weekend last month. The research into the impact […]
When the Accelerator Pedal Gets Stuck
The accelerator pedal of my car got stuck the other day. After I rode the brakes so hard to decelerate and exit the freeway that I had to replace them […]