The road to success in any difficult endeavour worth pursing is likely to—no, absolutely is guaranteed to—be marked by set-backs and failures. How we respond to those
It’s true. You just never know when your world will be rocked. In all the best ways.
As a college senior interested in psychology, my interest in this area ignited into passion when I discovered that there was a field actually called
I was in a meeting recently, when someone said, things are happening that are as real as gravity. My mind, as a psychologist, went immediately to those
What’s happening? Somebody DO something! Look what just happened. I can’t wait for [fill in the blank] to happen! We are so dialed into the happenings in
Many of us have heard about “learning mindset,” a way of thinking first championed by social psychologist Carol Dweck. This is the idea that when
First to resilience. I have come to dislike that term as a result of how it, like so many other terms like it (mental
For those who weren’t playing along with my last newsletter, I spoke about the “inverted U” curve that defines the relationship between resilience and grit. In that,
This is the last in a series about that less-than-obvious relationship between two presumed virtues: resilience and grit. Catch up on what you missed with