6-04 Resilience
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Resilience is more than bouncing back from adversity; it’s about growing by learning from life’s challenges. Resilience activities help develop the capacity to adapt, recover, thrive, and flourish during hard times.
This article expands on the science behind resilience training, exploring evidence-based resilience activities and strategies that support the development of psychological flexibility and wellbeing. We’ll explore how resilience training helps people navigate life’s difficulties and how it enhances overall life satisfaction, meaning, and purpose.
By identifying character strengths and using them to embrace vulnerabilities, resilience training helps transform setbacks, losses, and even disasters into opportunities for personal growth.
Moreover, resilience training develops a mindset that understands that challenges, setbacks, losses, and tragedy are an unavoidable part of the human experience, not a personal failing (Ketelaars et al., 2024; Zhai et al., 2021). This shift in perspective helps people meet loss and change with steadiness and compassion rather than fear or avoidance.
Exercise 1: Each night for a week, write down three things that went well that day and why they happened.
Exercise 2: Take a strengths inventory test or review the Gallup Strengths/Talents list. Best $60 investment you’ll ever make. See or just choose your top 5. You are probably in the top 5% of people on these abilities and use them in ways that are very difficult for most other people. For each of the 5, think of one time you used it this week. What was the result? How much effort was involved? Could you apply this talent more widely or deeply tomorrow?
https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/253715/34-cliftonstrengths-themes.aspx
What Are the 34 CliftonStrengths Themes? | EN – Gallup
SISU:
Finnish SISU: Extraordinary Perseverance – Good News
Finland is a tiny country. 5.6 million people in a world of 8.3 billion people. One of every 1,500 people lives in Finland. About the size of metro Philadelphia or metro Atlanta. Smaller than 72 cities. Less than Miami, Singapore, Dallas or Toronto. Just 1/5th the size of Jakarta, Dhaka, Tokyo, Delhi or Shanghai!!!!
An unusual language, distantly related to Hungarian and more closely connected with Estonian.
Yet, it clearly “punches above its weight”. 5 Nobel prize winners. Retaining its independence in 1940 against a vastly superior Russian army. 480 Olympic medals. Perennial global ice hockey competitor. Paavo Nurmi, the flying Finn. 2006 Eurovision song winner. Northern lights. Reindeer.
Finland experienced massive outmigration through time. 500,000 to the US and Canada. 650,000 Finnish descendants in the US today. 140,000 to Russia. 500,000 to Sweden.
Balmy Helsinki’s average daily high is 30 in December/January/February and 69 in June/July/August.
Today we incredibly look to Finland as the “happiest” country in the world with the “best” school system! This does not compute!
The SISU attitude is considered a national treasure. Extraordinary perseverance, an action mindset, latent power, resilience, community, spiritual force, the good life. In essence, an indomitable collective will to survive and thrive despite many threats.
An example for all of the world to consider.
Sisu: The Finnish art of inner strength
Sisu: Finnish SISU Explained
Sisu: The Finnish Secret of Inner Strength and Resilience | Psychology Today
What Sisu Can Teach Us About Well-Being | Psychology Today
What Finnish Can Teach Us About Resilience | Psychology Today
Finnish fun.
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