7 Good Minutes 7 Good Minutes: Extra - True resilience is not...
Dec 12, 2025
Explore the intriguing difference between rigid strength and true resilience. Discover how embracing flexibility can lead to deeper wisdom in life. Clyde uses the metaphor of oak versus bamboo to illustrate adaptability's advantages. Reflect on your unbreakable core, which holds your worthiness and connections intact. Let go of the need for invulnerability and acknowledge the power of feeling and growth. Remind yourself how adaptability has served you in tough times and trust that your core strength can guide you through.
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Resilience Is Core Plus Flexibility
- True resilience is not about staying rigid and unbending in the face of pressure.
- Clyde Lee Dennis reframes resilience as an unbreakable core combined with adaptive flexibility.
Nature Shows How To Withstand Storms
- Nature provides a metaphor: the oak breaks while bamboo bends and springs back.
- Clyde Lee Dennis uses this contrast to show adaptability often outlasts sheer strength.
Define Your Unbreakable Core
- Your unbreakable core includes love, capacity to learn, worthiness, and connection to something larger.
- These inner qualities cannot be damaged by external circumstances, Dennis asserts.