Positive Psychology's Hidden Flaw by Derek MacDonald
Why emotional endurance falls short of resilience.
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Engaging with failure as a puzzle rather than a punishment is how we can create resilience that endures.
Effort that makes visible progress becomes motivation, and then momentum. Limiting beliefs only lead to emotional endurance and learned helplessness. It’s combatting chatter with positive self-talk and accountability that develop grit—that help us to accept failure and feedback as encouragement for trying again.
Without the trying and failing part, we can’t build resilience.
onward.
-dmac