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The New Rules for Resilience: Navigating a Virtual and Uncertain World- An Interview with Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal
What can we do to be more resilient at this moment as we look at an illness that has completely different rules than any of us have seen in our lifetime?
Resilience Leadership in a World of Global Adversity
In order to be resilient during these turbulent and ambiguous times, The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People are more important now than ever before. Below is a subset of these practices, The New Rules for Resilience:
1. Vulnerability — embrace our humanity. Look internally, and take stock of how we are feeling internally, and allow our internal experience to match the self we show to the world on the outside. Being vulnerable doesn’t mean weakness, it means finding the strength within to share our authentic self with others to create connection and receive the resources we need to thrive.
2. Productive Perseverance — the art and science of when we maintain the mission, and then we choose to pivot our efforts in a new direction. In these turbulent times, we’re all going to need to think in a more agile and flexible way about our personal and professional pursuits in the months ahead.
3. Connection — is our aptitude to connect with ourselves, by trusting our gut, listening to voice within, and honoring our feelings and experience, along with connecting externally with our friends, neighbors, and community. As this time of social distancing and quarantine, a connection is still deeply important so that we don’t feel isolated as humans. Leveraging technology to connect with people in our lives will allow us to stay in close, even as we reduce our physical contact.
Tips for Resilience in Life and Leadership:
1. Assume positive intent — no one is trying to be harmful or disruptive. Everyone is doing the best they can with what they have, at present.
2. Empathy — We share the common human experience of the capacity to empathize with one another. We can treat each other with kindness, love, and care during these times.
3. Be Present — our children, partners, and family members, as well as our employees and community…
