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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 Reality of Self-Acceptance | Tamara Bong’o | TEDxYouth@BrookhouseSchool

Tamara talks about self-acceptance. People should appreciate themselves as they are. Tamara is 15 years old at Brookhouse School. She is currently in Year 11. She is about passionate singing, painting, and dancing and aspires to be an engineer.

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2019
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Letting Go of What Holds You Back | Amy Morin | TEDxOaklandUniversity

It only takes one or two bad habits to make you less effective and to rob you of mental strength. Rather than adding more good habits to your life, focus on giving up the unhealthy thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that keep you stuck.

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Amy Morin
2015
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How Mentally Strong People Achieve Success

Everyone experiences setbacks. Here's how to bounce back better than before.

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Amy Morin
2019
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The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong | Amy Morin | TEDxOcala

Everyone has the ability to build mental strength, but most people don't know how. We spend a lot of time talking about physical strength and physical health, but much less time on mental strength and mental health.

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Amy Morin
2015
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

In 2015 Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly at the age of forty-eight. Sandberg and her two young children were devastated, and she was certain that their lives would never have real joy or meaning again.

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Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
2019
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Resilience: How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free from the Past

Renowned French neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst Boris Cyrulnik’s parents were deported to a concentration camp during the Second World War. They never returned.

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Boris Cyrulnik
2011
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The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life’s Hurdles

Resilience is a crucial ingredient—perhaps the crucial ingredient—to a happy, healthy life. More than anything else, it’s what determines how high we rise above what threatens to wear us down, from battling an illness, to bolstering a marriage, to carrying on after a national crisis.

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Karen Reivich, Andrew Shatte
2025
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Mind Gym: An Athlete’s Guide to Inner Excellence

In Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so.

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Gary Mack, David Casstevens
2002
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Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

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George Leonard
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Mastering Self-Control | Stoic Exercises for Inner Peace

The Stoics bring forth the theme of self-control on a regular basis. Epictetus, for example, spoke about abstaining from talking about vulgar things, and Marcus Aurelius points out that we should set limits to comfort and consumption.

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2019
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