As a teenager, my major life-altering traumas were generally self-inflicted, like flunking a test for which I hadn’t bothered to study, getting dumped by a girlfriend whom I’d totally ignored to hang out with my friends, or the tragedy of all tragedies: damaging my car because I liked to drive...
Resilience is the capacity to recover from adversity. The lyrics to an old song can help us understand resilience. It says,We fall down; we get up. We fall down; we get up. We fall down; we get up.And the saints are just the sinners who fall down and get up. Don’t let the lyrics fool you. Saying...
You may be familiar with the popular leadership book Good to Great by Jim Collins. As we reflect on the character trait of Resilience, I would like to share a story from Good to Great (2001) about Admiral Jim Stockdale and the Stockdale Paradox. Admiral Jim Stockdale was the highest-ranking...
