"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before," she says. "The ones who used to run five miles now say, you know, I care on five miles, but I could walk three miles or four miles." It's basically what Victor Frankl says: Your attitude and response plays a major role in how resilient that is", Edwards adds.
Dr. Robert Brooks is a leading expert on resilience. He is a Doctor of Psychology, serves on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and has authored or co-authored over 19 books. During the past 40 years, Dr. Brooks has also lectured nationally and internationally to thousands of parents, educators, mental health professionals, and business leaders on topics pertaining to motivation, resilience, family relationships, the qualities of effective leaders and executives, and balancing our personal and professional lives.
Dr. Brooks joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast on how to build resilience in personal and professional life, as well as how resilience factors into parenting, leadership and more.
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