Resilience

                  RESILIENCE

Recently I was interviewing a successful businessman for a book I am writing and we were discussing his path to success. As we were talking I realized that he had been amazingly resilient throughout this entire process and the struggles he encountered along the way.

Then while attending the Summit Consulting Groups Million Dollar Convention in Atlanta in March, where I was surrounded by some incredible individuals, I had the opportunity to listen to Dr. Martin Seligman discuss The Practice of Positive Psychology. Dr. Seligman discussed a number of things such as:

-One of the most profound ways to increase your happiness is to at the end of your day to write down three positive things about your day and why they were positive.

-Research has shown that Twitter is predicting heart attacks better than the ten   standard indicators of heart attacks as tweets are posted immediately and analyzed in real time.

-He also discussed PERMA, which I will discuss in future post.

One of the things that struck me the most that Dr. Seligman said was:

“Resilience is twice as important as talent and IQ.”

After interviewing the successful businessman and realizing that he had been incredibly resilient, this was a profound statement. I recently picked up a book at Powell’s Books entitled: Resilience by Eric Greitens a former Navy Seal. The title obviously caught me attention.

In his book he says: Resilience is a virtue that enables us to move through our hardships and become better. None of us can escape pain, fear or suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, and from suffering can come strength, if we have the virtue of resilience.

Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us or make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

Resilience is the key to a well-lived life. If we want to be happy, we need resilience. If we want to be successful in business we need resilience. Just like the successful businessman that I interviewed recently.

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