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