Resilience | Self Improvement

A 24 Minutes LinkedIn Course Taught Me a Lot about How to be Resilient

And I shrunk those 24 minutes into 5 minutes and 10 lessons for you.

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“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” –Nelson Mandela

When you google define:resilience, the Lexico (Oxford) dictionary brings up two definitions for the word resilience.

1. the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.
2. the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity. 

If you asked me about learning one skill in life, I’d answer Resilience.

To survive and thrive, at school or work, or in life generally, everyone needs to learn to be resilient, especially now more than ever.

In search of learning how to being resilient, I stumbled upon a LinkedIn course titled: Subtle shift in thinking for tremendous resilience. Created by Pete Mockaitis of How to Be Awesome at Your Job, this is a podcast like course — spanning only 24 minutes and 15 seconds. Pete interviews renowned American author, professor…