Brain Fact Friday on ”Building Resiliency, Grit and Mental Toughness”

<p>Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” ― Angela Duckworth</p> <p>On today’s Episode #286 we will cover:</p> <p>✔ A review of EP126 on building resilience (what we covered back in April 2021).</p> <p>✔ A deeper look at what resilience is, with an evidence-based strategy we can all use to TODAY if we are ready, to build up our own reservoirs of resiliency to better handle our life and work stressors.</p> <p>✔ Tools for Measuring Resiliency.</p> <p>✔ Checks for Resiliency.</p> <p>✔ A Resiliency Challenge at the End to See if We Can All Push Ourselves to Try Something New to Build Resilience, Grit, Mental Toughness, and Our Ability to Use Our Head When We Need it the Most.</p> <p></p> <p>I needed to write this episode this week because it was just in time for me to try something new to build up my own levels of resiliency!! I hope you enjoy these ideas.</p> <p>And with that introduction, I want to welcome you back to Season 9 of The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we cover the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (for schools) and emotional intelligence training (in the workplace) with tools, ideas and strategies that we can all use for immediate results, with our brain in mind.  I’m Andrea Samadi, an author, and an educator with a passion for learning and launched this podcast to share how the understanding of our complex brain transfers into our everyday life and results. Each concept we cover here I’m hoping will help you, wherever you might be listening to this podcast in the world, just as much as these ideas are helping me personally and professionally.</p> <p>For today’s episode #286, we’re staying in line with our season theme of “Going Back to the Basics to Build a Stronger, More Resilient 2.0 Version of Ourselves” which was an intention I set at the very start of the year on EP268<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a> where we talked about prioritizing mental health in 2023 with a focus on self-awareness and resiliency.</p> <p></p> <p>A Review of H