Chapter 4: Resilience Flashcards
Self Efficacy
how well one can execute courses of action required to deal with prospective situations Albert Bandura
How resilience plays out in our language: example
Less Resilient Language More Resilient Language
Perpetrator, offender Responsible party;
Solution creator
Victim, sufferer Injured party
(or survivor in more
serious cases)
what is resilience
it is bouncing back: an old definition
recent definition: is the ability to positively respond to adversity
what is resilience important for
small daily things like Work stressTraffic, delays, frustrations
Everyday challenges
big things like Major illness, Abuse, Violence ,Tragedies, loss, heartbreak
what happens when you have low resilience
Even small setbacks feel like disasters
Takes a while to get back on your feet
what happens when you have high resilience
Bounce back from setbacks, then
Use adversity as an opportunity to grow
How does resilience help you
Stay focused on your goals & what is most important
Allows you to always move forward
Important thing to know about resilience
it is a skill that can be developed at any age or stage in life
Domains of Resilience
Resilience exists across 6 Domains
How well-being is related to Resilience
Wellbeing is ‘what’, Resilience is ‘how’
Resilience is how you achieve wellbeing
Stress and performance correlation
as your level of stress increases your performance will somewhat increase
In the beginning, when stress is low and performance is low you will be in a state of boredom and as street increases your performance will increase and you will get to productive stress at this stage the stress is positive it’s just the right amount to push you to perform better but if it continues increasing you will start becoming overloaded and become distressed and that is what is demonstrated in this gragh
stress
Stress is basically anything that can positively or negatively push you towards a certain state of being it can be negative or positive
How resilience helps performance
So when your resilience increases What’s going to happen is that you self-motivate yourself through goals so when stress is low, your motivation level is somewhat higher,
resilience enhances stress and performance curve so Even your level of stress is getting higher. Your performance Doesn’t decrease as much as when you don’t have resilience and your ability to go back to peak performance is higher
Resilience / Performance Matrix
Avoid burnout, being comfortable, or distress
High resilience allows you to sustain high performance
Neuroscience of Resilience
Location: Which areas of the brain are involved?
prefrontal cortex
Timing: When should we build resilience?
it can be built at any point in time regardless of age
Plasticity: What helps with learning?
it is a concept that our brain is never static, which means our brain is plastic, it is growing. There’s an ability for your neurons to keep growing regardless of age at any point in time The more you keep practicing, the more the neurons are formed
there is no such thing as you being born this way and you won’t be able to change it because with learning your brain changes and forms new connections
