The Empathy Edge

February Hot Take: How Marty Maraschino Taught Me Resilience

Feb 13, 2024

12:31

Resilience might be eligible for word of the year. You hear it everywhere you go. We talked a lot about resilience during the Pandemic. How do we bounce back and adapt?

One definition of resilience is “The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.”

Clearly, we need to embrace resilience as human beings. In a chaotic, unpredictable world where the only constant is change, you might drive yourself mad if you cannot adapt.

But more importantly, how is the skill of resilience strengthened, taught, or learned?

Today I share two examples from my childhood on how I learned resilience that I hope will not only enlighten you, but entertain you. (HINT: One involves my theater geek high school days!)

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Key Takeaways:

Practice having a growth mindset - it is not about being externally praised, it is about your innate desire to practice and improve and look at what can be tweaked to change the outcome on your next attempt.
Learn from those losses in your life. You can process the grief of losing but still embrace the opportunities in front of you.
Try anyway! Even if you don’t have all of the boxes checked for whatever you’re aiming to do, try anyway, you may surprise yourself with what you do accomplish.

I learned from moments like that to process my grief over what I'd lost, but embrace what was in front of me - and make it my own. — Maria Ross

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