Resiliency Matters
I love the magazine Fast Company, and I would encourage anyone to subscribe to it, or put it on your Twitter feed. A recent post featured six habits of highly resilient people. At Colorado Academy, we work on building resilience in young people through our core academic program, as well as through our experiential education and service learning efforts. I believe this one of the most critical things we do aside from helping to create intellectually curious individuals. Resilience is critical to one's emotional health, as well as one's personal and professional success.
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The author, Gwen Moran, identifies the following key practices of individuals that can manage the good and the bad that life can throw our way:
1) They build relationships.
2) They re-frame past hurts.
3) They accept past failure.
4) They have multiple identities.
5) They practice forgiveness.
6) They have a sense of purpose.
I would encourage parents to read this article and have a conversation around the dinner table to talk with your children about how you face challenges. It is important for children to see role models and for them to understand that highly successful people have dealt with failure and unfairness and come through times of unpleasantness as better people.
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