[Clarity Skills]

Category: Resilience

  • Mentally stronger people always have better chance to succeed.

    Also remember that the (internal or external) enemy gets a vote.

  • Mindset Exercise

    In any moment, if you feel like you could benefit from shifting to a more positive mindset, think of three things that went or are going well. Do this for 5-10 minutes.

    If there is nothing positive in the present situation, you may want to look elsewhere. What strengths in your life or society at large can be seen? How are you modelling strength and resilience for others around you now?

    On scale 0-10 where 10 is full mental strength and 0 its opposite, where are you now?

    What can you do in this moment that can help you move up 1 point on the scale?

  • Does my current behavior strengthen or weaken my/our capacity to function?

    Why is that?

  • On Resilience

    Resilience is a word that everyone loves, but that is – by definition – hard to do. Resilience develops only by doing tasks that are physically and mentally demanding. It is something that needs constant challenge and pushing it, otherwise we grow less resilient over time.

    Because I like the table format due to how it can simplify complex reality, here is one view into resilience:

    AspectWeakens resilience (- -)Maintains resilience (+-0)Strengthens resilience (++)
    social interactionavoid challenging topics in a conversation

    stay quiet
    		actively participate in challenging conversations

    answer when asked    		bring up challenging topics in a conversation

    take your turn when necessary
    physical exerciseavoid challenging physical exercisefollow a pre-set exercise programdo ad-hoc training (supersets, drop sets)

    early morning training

    frequent cold exposure
    mental exerciseswipe, scroll and binge watch for hoursread a bookread a book from challenging genre or author

    watch documentary on a challenging topic

  • On Challenging Yourself

    In the modern world of the 2020’s, it is very easy to be immediately satisfied. Thanks to online streaming, gaming and stores, we can (un)happily avoid most human contact and tell ourselves that we have healthy friendships, they just all happen to be pseudonyms, and that we enjoy culture when we binge Netflix for the fifth hour today.

    Here’s a practical challenge, a quest of sorts: take a moment to list what makes you curious. What world do you want to enter?

    Then find a book about that. Read it till the end unless it is utterly boring and badly written. If you decide to quit, figure out the specific reason, and also decide the next step you’ll take.

    Little by little, page by page your resilient identity and attitude will grow. It will spread to other areas of life.

    How will you challenge yourself today?

    What is the next step you take?