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Resilience & grit

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Arianna Huffington: Talk to Your Children About Your Struggles. It Allows Them to Understand Failure as a Stepping Stone to Success

When you watch someone go through an entire career, you can see that things aren’t always perfect.

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How to Reach Your Goals | Angela Duckworth

Who succeeds in life? In this talk, Angela Duckworth presents her influential work on grit-the tendency to pursue long-term goals with perseverance and passion. She describes the predictive power of grit for performance in a variety of fascinating contexts.

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Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation

Wheels of Courage tells the stirring story of the soldiers, sailors, and marines who were paralyzed on the battlefield during World War II-at the Battle of the Bulge, on the island of Okinawa, inside Japanese POW camps—only to return to a world unused to dealing with their traumatic injuries.

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FindCenterIt is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you’ll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.

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‘I Was Going to Thrive’: After Breast Cancer, Bronzeville Woman Triumphs as a Bodybuilder

When Erica Langley walked into the gym for the first time after her breast cancer surgeries, she felt overwhelmed. But in May 2021, after six months of intense training, Langley entered two bodybuilding competitions and won multiple medals, placing first in one category

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Angela Lee Duckworth: Grit—the Power of Passion and Determination

Definitions of “success” typically include one or more of the following: achievement, accomplishment, attainment and triumph. Each word is positive and uplifting, evoking a sense of satisfaction and worth.

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life.

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FindCenterBecause a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

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The Path of Self-Realization: Living True to Who We Really Are

Do you remember that famous scene in the movie Rocky, when he ran up seventy-two steps to the top of the Philadelphia Museum, and once he got there he raised his arms triumphantly? That’s you on the path of self-realization.

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How It Feels to Have Cancer as a Young Person

While most young people are starting their lives and figuring out what they want to do with their futures, there are 4,000 Australians every year under the age of 35 who get diagnosed with some form of Cancer. It is estimated that one third of those diagnosed in any year are not expected to survive.

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