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Resilience in the Face of Adversity
Adversity. Challenges. Obstacles.
Resilience in the face of adversity.
How well do you handle adversity, challenges and obstacles? Are you able to work your way through challenges and adversities in your life? Where do you go out of your way to avoid the adversities, challenges and obstacles in your life?
Becoming Anti-fragile
Anti-fragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same.
The anti-fragile gets better.
Things that are anti-fragile benefit from randomness, uncertainty and variation.
As we increase our ability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, mistakes, failures or attacks, the more anti-fragile we become.
There’s actually proof of this, for instance
Plans versus Reality
Have you ever thought to yourself “well that didn’t go according to how you planned it”?
But what if…Everything is exactly as it’s supposed to be.
Our “plan” is really just our anticipated expectation of a desired outcome.
Like in the picture above…A lot of our “plans” don’t include this thing we call life, interrupting our anticipated expectation.
But the beauty of this is that everything in our life is really just an experiment.