Sublime

I couldn’t afford to become injured and therefore resilience and durability were just as important.

What empowers us, for example, to stay connected to our compassionate nature even under the worst circumstances?

when you are practicing adaptive leadership, distinctive skills and insights are necessary to deal with this swirling mass of energies. You need to be able to do two things: (1) manage yourself in that environment and (2) help people tolerate the discomfort they are experiencing. You need to live into the disequilibrium.

The most resilient people in the face of uncertainty—the ones who feel the least anxiety, the ones who are more likely to take the most worthwhile risks, the ones who get back on the horse when they get knocked off—adopt the perspective that the goal of life is internal and that the results are partly outside their control.

RESILIENCE IS SUFFERING STRATEGICALLY MANAGED

Resilience is applied evolution, and its magic ingredient isn’t data, hypotheses, or tests. Fairness precedes experimentation in the hierarchy of resilience. Just as air is necessary for human life, so free and fair exchange is a necessary condition to generate an evolutionary edge.

Sturdiness is the quality of getting work done every day, with extreme regularity and without long streaks of non-achievement. Sturdiness seems to be especially valuable in people working on longer-term projects. There is also evidence that sturdiness helps people make it through military training and also helps with jobs that involve high-stress m