From the course: Thriving through Career Challenges
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Getting real about resilience
From the course: Thriving through Career Challenges
Getting real about resilience
- Now before we take this journey together to thrive through challenges, change, and loss, we must redefine resilience. We've already said resilience isn't about bouncing back. I've created an acronym to help us get REAL about resilience. Let's walk through this acronym, REAL, together. The R of REAL is to Reflect. How are you making time to express how you feel? Make time for introspection to identify the loss or change and how you feel about it. This helps us to be more self-aware and emotionally intelligent. As you reflect, ask yourself questions like how do I feel about this and why do I feel this way? Our emotions are data, so acknowledge them instead of judging how you feel. When people ask me how do I feel, I've had to learn that fine is not a feeling. Leverage tools like the Wheel of Emotions developed by American psychologist Robert Plutchik to help you name your feelings. I've provided it for you on page four…
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