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G.R.I.T.

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Fall seven times stand up eight

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NEVER GIVE UP KEEP IT GOING!!!!

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"I look forward to get knocked down because it is chance to stand back up and show life the grit from which I am made." - Chris Homes

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''You have only FAILED if you have GIVEN up''

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In an HBR article titled "Building resilience," Dr. Martin Seligman (2011) talks about building resilience after failing. Failure is a common trauma we all face in life. But each of our responses is different. While some seem to bounce back shortly after, others seem to spiral more and more into depression and despair, paralyzing them to even think about the future.

Seligman contends that resilience can be measured and taught. In fact, the U.S. Army is putting Seligman's ideas into practice through its Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program. In essence, CSF's goal is to prepare soldiers psychologically for stress and trauma just like boot camp prepares them physically for battle. A key part of CSF is something called "master resilience training" (MRT) where drill sergeants learn to embrace resilience and then pass it on, by building mental toughness, signature strengths, and strong relationships.

Challenging Seligman's idea, Stix's article ("The neuroscience of true grit") in Scientific American (2011) offers what I consider a much more balanced perspective to resilience and the human capacity to recover. Beyond the hype about teaching resilience, the article points out that people do, in fact, recover from disasters and they do so more often than many people realize. While each person's way towards recovery is different, coping ugly as a researcher in the article says, it serves to help him/her adapt to the crisis.

George A. Bonanno of Teachers College at Columbia University has devoted his career as a psychologist to documenting the varieties of resilient experience, focusing on our reactions to the death of a loved one and to what happens in the face of war, terror and disease. In every instance, he has found, most people adapt surprisingly well to whatever the world presents; life returns to a measure of normalcy in a matter of months.

And it's Bonanno who raises concern about Seligman and the military's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program and its lack of evidence for its effectiveness. More importantly than whether it works or not, I agree with Bonanno that there's a potential for a much greater danger - whether more harm than good might result from interfering with people's ability to naturally bounce back.

If most people are resilient, as they seem to be in all the studies we've done, what happens to those people if you give them stress-inoculation training? -Dr. George A. Bonanno

What's more, even those in the military aren't jumping on Seligman's resilience training. "William P. Nash, a physician formerly charged with overseeing stress-monitoring programs for the U.S. Marines, says there is little evidence for prophylactic resilience training" (Stix, 2011, p. 33).
Take-Away Message

Humans have an amazing capacity to recover and bounce back from disasters and traumas, even without assistance or, in the case of resilience training, interference.

It is critical to always consider whether more harm than good might result from interfering (this includes interventions to teach resilience) with people's natural ability to bounce back from trauma.

References

Seligman, M. (2011, April). Building resilience. Harvard Business Review, April, 100-106. Retrieved from http://hbr.org/2011/04/building-resilience/ar/1

Stix, G. (2011, March). The neuroscience of true grit: When tragedy strikes, most of us ultimately rebound surprisingly well. Where does such resilience come from? Scientific American, 304(3), 29-33.

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Humans, True Grit, and Teaching Resilience

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In an HBR article titled "Building resilience," Dr. Martin Seligman (2011) talks about building resilience after failing. Failure is a common trauma we all face in life. But each of our responses is different. While some seem to bounce back shortly after, others seem to spiral more and more into depression and despair, paralyzing them...

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"There aren't shortcuts. It's your grit that keeps you coming back each day"

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"Fall seven times, get back up eight times

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"Success all depends on the second letter"

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Don't give up the diamonds are just a inch away

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Sometimes you just gotta be your own hero and save your own little heart. Because sometimes, the people you can't imagine living without, can actually live without you.

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If you don't fall how are you going to know what getting up is like!
-Stephen Curry

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"Success is getting up everytime you fall, failure is refusing to get up at all" -Kerri Strug

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Grit doesn't come from you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you thought you couldn't.

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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehowalready know what you truly want to become.
-Steve Jobs

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Inspirational movie about the meaning of "Grit"