Comments on: How to Build Resilience

By: vancouver wedding photography

vancouver wedding photography — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:47:35 +0000

I do believe all of the ideas you have presented for your post. They’re really convincing and will definitely work. Still, the posts are too quick for novices. Could you please lengthen them a little from next time? Thanks for the post.

By: liz garnett

liz garnett — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:49:39 +0000

Dan, I really like the recurrent theme in both your book and blog of identifying things that are so often treated as beyond our control, and putting both the responsibility and power to do something about them back in our hands.

I’ve been doing quite a lot of work on issues of performance anxiety with singers recently, and have found that deliberately engaging the parasympathetic nervous system (the rest/digest dimension that counter-balances the fight-flight response) helps people manage their level of arousal. (I’ve written about this here: http://www.helpingyouharmonise.com/adrenaline2)

By the way, another thing I like about your blog are the people you find participating in the comments – I’ve just spent a happy 20 minutes on Gerald’s site, and will be going back there again!

By: James

James — Thu, 31 May 2012 05:33:13 +0000

Thank you so much, Daniel, for your excellent book. I recommend ‘The Talent Code’ to all and everybody who want to change their life or master something.

Your article above, ‘How to Build Resilience’, came at a good time for me.

I am in the middle of a huge project, too big for me really, that has to do with developing a device that could help make the world a better place. I caught myself wondering if there was any hope of this dream becoming reality.

It took me a bit of time, but I got ‘back on my horse’. Of course it is worth every effort to get it done. It was a good reminder to keep a disciplined store of pre-silience.

It is interesting that when you break up the word it almost looks like pre-’silence’, which resonates with the book title ‘Quiet’. I am an introvert who has added Ms. Cain’s book to his Amazon wishlist. Thanks for the recommendation.

One more Thank You. You have created an AWESOME blog. I continue to post your website link to my FB friends. You are changing the world my friend. Keep up the great work.

BTW this TED Talk may relate well to this article. http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html

By: RDS

RDS — Wed, 30 May 2012 23:32:38 +0000

This is a fantastic piece. This week we are doing some training to prep for media interviews and this is bang on. thank you.

By: Robnonstop

Robnonstop — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:34:55 +0000

Diet is important too. Bacteria in Yoghurt have been proven to make mice calmer in stressful situations. Considering the fact that we have more bacteria than cells with our own DNA in our body, we should look closely at what kinds of bacteria we want to house and how they affect us.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/08/29/from-guts-to-brains-–-eating-probiotic-bacteria-changes-behaviour-in-mice/

Take this Zombie Snail housing parasites (worms) as an example, it is driven to make bad decisions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWB_COSUXMw

By: Gerald Klickstein

Gerald Klickstein — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:03:14 +0000

Terrific post, Dan. Love the concept of “pre-silience,” which strikes me as a component of deep practice – one of many practice skills that runs under the hood.

Regarding ways to acquire resilience, your recommendations complement those that I make to musicians, which I summarize in my post “Practicing Performance.” I invite you and your readers to take a look: http://musiciansway.com/blog/2009/10/practicing-performance/

By: Hap

Hap — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:31:13 +0000

Moshe Feldenkrais, the Israeli genius who created a sophisticated movement-based approach to awareness, had an unusual definition of “health.” Part of it was “the ability to recover from shock.” Feldenkrais was a physicist and judo master, thus obviously ‘skilled’ at falling. The other part of his definition was “the ability to live out one’s avowed — and unavowed — dreams.” (That last one I’m still puzzling over.)

By: Susan Alexander

Susan Alexander — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:43:01 +0000

Dan:

As always, an excellent post. As anyone knows who’s read The Talent Code, everything we do is a skill.

It’s so useful to remember that things we usually consider a response (like resilience) are actually skills we can practice and improve at – even the ones we consider ourselves “bad at.”

I’ve been experimenting a lot with different kinds of visualization and I’m finding it all very powerful. Pre-creating stressful situation is a kind of visualization. I especially like the “no stopping allowed” aspect, and of course, the repeating, over and over. All so useful, because once the real thing starts happening, it feels like we’ve already done it.

All so timely. I’m expecting a stressful encounter today. Time to start practicing for it in my mind

Susan