Tag: Resilience

  • Friday Inspiration

    Petal and Mortar read my post Stress Makes You Social about Kelly McGonigal’s TED Talk entitled How to Make Stress Your Friend and let me know about her post Friday Inspiration about Kelly’s twin sister Jane McGonigal’s TED Talk on her game SuperBetter, The Game That Can Give You 10 Extra Years of Life. According…

  • Resilience

    RESILIENCE: THE SCIENCE OF MASTERING LIFE’S GREATEST CHALLENGES by Dennis S. Charney, MD – Dean Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai RESILIENCE PRESCRIPTION Positive Attitude Optimism is strongly related to resilience Optimism is, in part, genetic but can be learned (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) Neurobiological Mechanisms: Reward circuits, converse of learned helplessness Cognitive Flexibility through Cognitive…