Understanding Resilience and Mental Toughness
This is one of a series of posts around the topic of resilience, inner strength, and mental toughness. Making a life study of these skills is crucial to your success in life and in business. Here we will explore the concept of understanding resilience and mental toughness.
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What does it mean to be resilient and have mental toughness?
In order to strengthen resilience, it’s important to understand the concept in depth. Resilience is the ability to move forward by growing through every part of life’s process. Struggling is a natural part of living. What matters is how we react to struggle.
It’s easy to let difficulty keep us down. It isn’t easy to stay afloat when the waters are rocky, and it’s okay to feel that struggle. Resilience is associated with toughness. Part of being tough means admitting to difficulty and working through it instead of ignoring it.
Psychology Today defines resilience as “that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back at least as strong as before. Rather than letting difficulties or failure overcome them and drain their resolve, they find a way to rise from the ashes.”
