Collectively, we humans are a resilient bunch. Resilience is a necessity, a superpower that each of us can tap into given the right approach.
In most cases, when challenges present themselves, we’re good at rising to the occasion and pushing through. It’s when that challenge becomes an endurance event – such as waiting months for an insurance assessment or being displaced and living out of a suitcase – that it can be very wearying on our spirit, if we allow it.
Learning ways to strengthen our resilience can enable us to thrive, despite our circumstances, explains resilience specialist and peak-performance psychologist Dr Alia Bojilova, author of The Resilience Toolkit: A proven four-step process to unlock your true potential. In her book she shares her knowledge for how to build broader and stronger resilience, irrespective of your baseline.
“I don’t know whether there has been a time in history when resilience hasn’t been important, but if we’re honest, we’ve had an onslaught of change, ambiguity and unpredictability, the likes of which the world
