Top Highlights

• It’s true that resilience gives us the inner resources—courage, strength, wisdom—we require to deal with difficult circumstances. But resilience also provides the realization that how we fare in life has less to do with the particular challenges we experience and more to do with how we respond to those challenges.
• Modern neuroscience has revealed much about how we can tap into this core and sharpen those tools.
• was necessary for me to rediscover my strengths
• Everyone possesses resilience, and everyone needs it. Social media can convince us that everybody around us is doing just wonderfully, with no challenges, no crises, and the full support of their spouse and families. We wonder: Why me? Why do I have these difficulties in my life when others don’t? But we never really know what’s going on in someone...
• You’ll see a few key themes cropping up throughout the book. The first is the importance of mindfulness, that is, an awareness of what’s going on in our minds, and in the here and now. An incredibly useful approach, mindfulness enables us to see what’s real and true in our experience, and with that we can determine our next steps with much greater ...