Quotes About Resilience

He inspired them to feel more determined, more ready, more motivated. And when you build people up in this way, they develop the strength to act.

Mindset, by Carol Dweck

The growth mindset, then, is a buffer against defeatism. It reframes failure as a natural part of the change process.

One Small Step Can Change Your Life, by Robert Maurer [Individual and organizational change]. If you liked the chapter on shrinking the change, this is your book. Maurer shows how small steps can lead to great change.

You need to create the expectation of failure—not the failure of the mission itself, but failure en route. This

people will persevere only if they perceive falling down as learning rather than as failing.

It's easier to persevere on a long journey when you're traveling with a herd.

Why did they quit so easily? The answer may surprise you: They ran out of self-control.

If failure is a necessary part of change, then the way people understand failure is critical.

It took practice, and it took persistence.

So, yes, a long journey starts with a single step, but a single step doesn't guarantee the long journey. How do you keep those steps coming?

Pits need to be filled.

That sense of progress is critical, because the Elephant in us is easily demoralized. It's easily spooked, easily derailed, and for that reason, it needs reassurance, even for the very first step of the journey.

That's the paradox of the growth mindset. Although it seems to draw attention to failure, and in fact encourages us to seek out failure, it is unflaggingly optimistic. We will struggle, we will fail, we will be knocked down—but throughout, we'll get better, and we'll succeed in the end.

Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit

The answer may sound strange: You need to create the expectation of failure—not the failure of the mission itself, but failure en route.

Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun (2004). "Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence," Psychological Inquiry 15: 1–18. The researchers have a test of post-traumatic growth, called the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), that you can find online. We also recommend the excellent Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg. Also see:

To lead a process requires persistence.

So if one of your stars leaves, you can simply wish him the best of luck on his new bus. And then grow another star to take his place. May

When change works, it tends to follow a pattern. The people who change have clear direction, ample motivation, and a supportive environment.

Even in failure there is success.

Self-control is an exhaustible resource

Failing is often the best way to learn, and because of that, early failure is a kind of necessary investment.

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that's the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.