If you type in Resilience in the google search-bar, the answer will be this:
resilience:
1. the capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.
2. the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.
If anyone knows Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Book "Antifragility, Things that gain from Disorder" Resilinece it is essencially what he was talking about.
According to him he made a new word for what I am going to discribe, but the word and the meaning in "Resilience" has existed way before Taleb.
First a little History:
Humanity has come to what we know now thanks to our ability to observe what is happening in the world around us and what happens when we interact with it.
Basically we evolved from scrapping all tiny bits of food we could find so we wouldn't starve, to hunting down animals stronger than us, then taming them and setteling down. From there build more and more complex structures of civilized cooporation.
In the course of building structures relying on each other and becoming more efficient prosperity grew. Fewer people were preoccupied to find something to eat and had time to venture into higher challenges. Best example: Medicine.
Thanks to prosperity and the interest in keeping people alive, great methods were developped to ensure that we would survive for example a cold or extreme bloodloss from terrible accidents.
But I am no expert in methods of medicine. Let's talk about where this led us to:
Life became less and less dangerous and people became more and more obsessed with living longer. Leading to them avoiding essentiall activities like socializing (I'm referrign to Covid) and playing sports, stepping out of line, showing imperfections (i.e. character), making mistakes.
The pity in this: we forget that our life isn't mesured in the years that we breathe and walk on the face of the earth, but in the memories we make, through facing adversity and adventures and surviving simingly impossible situtations, making mistakes and finding our own solution to keep going.
In the contrary you should be seeking them out and grow with the challenge.
That is what I call Resilience.
The experinces of the process and the gains in the outcome are worth every effort.
Now to what this page will be about:
Most Challenges nowaday are not physical, they are mostly virtual or only fought out in words. Because we are civilized. But still you bady has to feel some challenge. We are still wired like for hunting, running and surviving harsh conditions.
Don't forget about it. It needs to let off steam, regularly, through exercise you help relieve stress and build confidence as biproduct, Make use of that.
You're doing something good to yourself now and in the longrun.
Because our body is the only reliable tool that is always available to us. And if shit hits the fan you are already capable of moving independently.
Physical Preparedness - i.e. training regularly in a purposeful manner - is super important.
It is acually one of the few things in this world that reflect reality back to us.
Do you manage the weight or fail?
Do I get more reps than last time or do you have to try again?
The feedback is immediate and the work can only be done by you.
So get started and change.
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