From the course: Developing a Problem-Solving Mindset

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Finding your resiliency

Finding your resiliency

I had a nurse tell me once that I needed to get sick so that my body could learn how to fight off the infections so that when I would get sick later as an adult, it would already have the recipe and the blueprint to be able to cook up some antibodies and be able to find a way to, you know, block the illness as it would try to come later on. I think that is kind of a metaphor for life and solving all problems like we need problems to come and be difficult. We all run into challenges. And if we decide that we're going to stop after the first challenge in our problem solving journey, we won't be able to go anywhere. Right? So resiliency is a must. That relationship is absolutely tied together, inextricably bound in a lot of ways. Resiliency is to problem solving as oxygen is to water right? Like you need it because ultimately things can't get formed. You can't find solutions without being resilient. I don't think that you can train people to be resilient. Right. I think you can create…

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