There is no such thing as a stressful situation. How well we survive and thrive is entirely down to how we perceive ourselves and the world around us. Our resilience depends on our ability to access the behavioral patterns that have enabled our species to sense, respond, adapt, and thrive through both feast and famine, calm and chaos... As you read through the pages of Resilience By Design, you'll learn how to perceive the world differently, how to think and act differently at work and across other situations. If you want to bring resilience to a challenging home life, or if you want to excel in whatever field you choose, this book will help. This book can be read from end to end, or you can thumb through the book, dipping in here and there for a story that catches your eye, exploring some of our research, or experimenting with an activity, or adopting time-tested techniques. To learn more about our approach to resilience, give the activity below a try. WAS THE CAT YOU IMAGINED ANYTHING LIKE OURS? Not only do people interpret the meaning of words very differently based on their own experiences, there is often an underlying personal intent. We each have an unstated idea of "what we would like to have happen." We each have our own unique answers. We see a different cat, a different ball of string, a different form of play, and, most importantly, we each have our own ideas about what we would like to happen. How we answer the questions above is based on our experiences, contexts, values, and even on what temperature our coffee is when we are asked the question. The act of capturing meaning and sharing intention in symbols and writing is not as objective as we would like to believe. Consider the ambiguity in the following sentence: The man watches the woman with binoculars. There are two possible meanings. Which one did you latch onto immediately? Was the man using binoculars to watch the woman, or was the woman using the binoculars (and being watched by the man while doing so)? It all hinges on the simple preposition with. If even a simple sentence like this has pitfalls, imagine how much more challenging it is to communicate exactly what we intend when we act as narrators, tellers of our own stories. This becomes even more difficult when our intentions are not clear even to ourselves. Metaphors are at the heart of Resilience By Design. We can use them to assist people to move from one perception to another: where they might start by describing how stress is crushing them, they can flip the script with the aid of a metaphor. They can reframe their experience to something more resilient. Rather than talking about being crushed, they can talk about being able to "bounce back." Using the power of language and metaphor to reframe perceptions and change the nature of memory is one important key to developing resilience.
✔ Author(s): Mike Weeks,Ian Snape
✔ Title: Resilience By Design: How to Survive and Thrive in a Complex and Turbulent World
✔ Rating : 5 out of 5 base on (26 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1119794935
✔ ISBN-13: 9781119794936
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
Readers' opinions about Resilience By Design by Mike Weeks
Melody Blake
I must confess, this book made me shed tears like never before. The themes of love, loss, and resilience struck a chord with my soul. It was an emotional journey I'm grateful to have taken.
Katherine Stevenson
The plot twists were executed masterfully. I was left gasping at every unexpected turn, and the suspense kept me on edge throughout. Bravo to the author for keeping me guessing.
Violet Tyler
The author's ability to evoke a wide range of emotions through their words is truly remarkable. I felt like I was on an emotional rollercoaster throughout the entire book.
