CHAPTER 3
HOW HARDINESS PROMOTES RESILIENCE
As we’ve seen, resilience is the capacity to survive and thrive despite stressful circumstances. But some people do it far better than others, so we need to look for pathways to resilience. The initial twelve-year study at IBT uncovered that hardiness is revealed in a pattern of attitudes and skills that promote resilience. Hardiness preserves people’s performance and health by helping them to think and act constructively when stressful circumstances occur.
STRESS CAN BUILD UP
There are two kinds of stress. One involves disruptive changes in routine or circumstance. For example, your boss suddenly tells you that a cut in your department budget will change how you operate, and at the most extreme, that ...
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