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The Counterintuitive Way to Build Resilience and Achieve Long-Term Success

By Neil Pasricha — 2019

There are times when quantity matters more than quality.

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The Champion’s Comeback: How Great Athletes Recover, Reflect, and Re-Ignite

Your ultimate guide to overcoming losses and injuries and achieving greatness—on and off the field.

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The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD

A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came.

George A. Bonanno

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Famous Failures

Inspiring video on persevering no matter how many times you have failed in life. This video mentions well known people who had failed, but kept pressing on until they became successful.

Albert Einstein

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What we call ‘mastery’ can be defined as that mysterious process through which what is at first difficult or even impossible becomes easy and pleasurable through diligent, patient, long-term practice.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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Never, Ever Give Up | Diana Nyad

In the pitch-black night, stung by jellyfish, choking on salt water, singing to herself, hallucinating Diana Nyad just kept on swimming. And that’s how she finally achieved her lifetime goal as an athlete: an extreme 100-mile swim from Cuba to Florida—at age 64. Hear her story.

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Moving from Recovery to Discovery | The Choice by Dr. Edith Eger

Dr. Edith Eger, the author of The Choice, delves into her time at Auschwitz, discussing things that she never thought were possible. Dr. Eger talks about finding hope in hopelessness, and how everything has a spark inside of it.

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The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living—Native American Wisdom on Ethics and Character

Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and reveals the path to a fulfilling and meaningful life.

Joseph M. Marshall III

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The Grit Workbook for Kids: CBT Skills to Help Kids Cultivate a Growth Mindset and Build Resilience

As a parent, you want to give your child a solid foundation for living a happy, successful life.

Elisa Nebolsine

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Grit, Grace & Gravitas: The Three Keys to Transforming Leadership, Presence, and Impact

In their new book on leadership, which expands our understanding of emotional intelligence, Jane Firth and Andrea Zintz deconstruct the mysteries of presence and reconstruct them into actionable skills for leaders.

Jane Firth, Andrea Zintz

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Resilience