Building Resilience How To Shift Mental Gears
Our perspective toward whatever we encounter in life fundamentally changes how we experience it. Redefining Stressful Setbacks Stress itself can be defined as the perception that something is more than we can handle. When we frame challenges as surmountable, we more easily surmount them (or at least begin to work our way forward). When we frame them as opportunities for failure, we more easily fail. That may sound like the most hackneyed, clichéd advice ever—but it is a foundation of resilience research....