From the course: Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Option B: Building Resilience
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Raising resilient kids
From the course: Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Option B: Building Resilience
Raising resilient kids
- When I was 16, I went skiing for the very first time and I was not a good athlete as a child, like terrible, and I was afraid. I was with my mom and we went up the wrong way and we wound up on what was a really hard run, and I remember just sitting down in the snow and crying. I will never get down this mountain, and my mom said to me, "Don't look down the mountain, "just do ten turns. "You can do ten turns." So, I counted out my ten turns. I went back to that after Dave died, because everything felt like a mountain. When Dave wasn't there to take my son to one of his basketball games, I pictured every basketball game for the rest of my son's life without his father. I realized, I couldn't solve the whole problem. I didn't have to get down the whole mountain, and so I started doing small things. Ten turns, one turn, then another. (light instrumental music) - People often marvel at how resilient kids are. Sometimes noticing that kids seem to be more resilient than adults. There's…
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The importance of resilience2m 52s
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Talking about loss and hardship2m 1s
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Fighting permanence2m 20s
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Self-confidence and self-compassion2m 28s
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The platinum rule of friendship2m 20s
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Raising resilient kids3m 21s
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Finding meaning2m 31s
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Taking back joy2m 1s
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Building community resilience52s
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