Creating & Developing Resilience
A selection of other resources that might help you create and develop your resilience
Worth a Read
The Books
What Doesn’t Kill Us: A guide to overcoming adversity and moving forward – Stephen Joseph
Big Magic: Creating living beyond fear – Elizabeth Gilbert
Option B: Facing adversity, building resilience and finding joy – Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
Rising Strong: How the ability to reset transforms the way we live, love, parent and lead – Brené Brown
Wintering – Katherine May
Phosphorescence – Julia Baird
The Up Side of Down: Bouncing Back in Business & in Life – Megan McArdle
Not read but come recommended
How to Fail Fast and be Resilient at Work – Susan Kahn
The Micro-Resilience: Minor shifts for major boosts in focus, drive and energy – Bonnie St John and Allen P. Haines
Resilience: Why things bounce back – Andrew Zolli and Anne Marie Healey
Learned Optimism: How to change your mind and your life – Martin E.P. Seligman
Worth a Listen
A Couple of Extra Bits
Here is a short slide deck to help you take your thinking about resilience beyond just personal resilience and into your teams and thinking about you as a leader. There are prompts included, so grab your notebook and start thinking about what resilience looks like more widely at work.
When you are finding it difficult to work out what is ‘worth’ worrying about, here is a little hack to help you understand and grow your circle of influence.
A few articles I found about not being overwhelmed by your inbox:
https://unplugged.rest/blog/how-to-manage-email-overload
Worth a watch
Great talks on resilience more generally by Lucy Hone, Denise Mai and Dr Fiona Starr & Dr Mike Solomon
