Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Life: What is Resilience?

In their newly published book, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy, Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant (2017) identify and explore resilience.  They define resilience as:

"...the strength and speed of our response to adversity-and we can build it.  It isn't about having a backbone.  It's about strengthening the muscles around around our backbone."(p.10)

In the Harvard Business Review, Andrea Ovans (01/05/2015) defines resilience in the workplace as:

"...the ability to recover from setbacks, adapt well to change, and keep going in the face of adversity."

I want to explore resilience and how it has already appeared in my life, even while I was unaware of its presence.  I hope to learn how to continue building resilience and how to share that information with my daughters, and perhaps friends and colleagues in my life.  

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