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The Resilience Factor
7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles
by Karen Reivich, Andrew Shatte
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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway (October 14 2003)
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Chapter 1: The Commitment to Change
To the casual observer, Robert was living the American dream. Through hard work and a measure of serendipity, he had moved through the ranks of a Fortune 1000 company. He and his wife, Jeannie, had just celebrated twenty good years together.

Chapter 1: Our Journey, Our Process
We want to accompany you on a voyage of self-discovery. We want to share with you the process that has helped the thousands with whom we've worked - and helped us too, as you'll see from the examples we offer from our own lives.



Book Description

Resilience is a crucial ingredient - perhaps the crucial ingredient - to a happy, healthy life. More than anything else, it's what determines how high we rise above what threatens to wear us down, from battling an illness, to bolstering a marriage, to carrying on after a national crisis. Everyone needs resilience, and now two expert psychologists share seven proven techniques for enhancing our capacity to weather even the cruelest setbacks.

The science in The Resilience Factor takes an extraordinary leap from the research introduced in the bestselling Learned Optimism a decade ago. Just as hundreds of thousands of people were transformed by "flexible optimism," readers of this book will flourish, thanks to their enhanced ability to overcome obstacles of any kind. Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatté are seasoned resilience coaches and, through practical methods and vivid anecdotes, they prove that resilience is not just an ability that we're born with and need to survive, but a skill that anyone can learn and improve in order to thrive.

Readers will first complete the Resilience Questionnaire to determine their own innate levels of resilience. Then, the system at the heart of The Resilience Factor will teach them to:

  • Cast off harsh self-criticisms and negative self-images
  • Navigate through the fallout of any kind of crisis
  • Cope with grief and anxiety
  • Overcome obstacles in relationships, parenting, or on the job
  • Achieve greater physical health
  • Bolster optimism, take chances, and embrace life

In light of the unprecedented challenges we've recently faced, there's never been a greater need to boost our resilience. Without resorting to feel-good pap or quick-fix clichés, The Resilience Factor is self-help at its best, destined to become a classic in the genre.

About the Author

Karen Reivich, Ph.D.

Karen Reivich, Ph.D. coauthored The Optimistic Child, for which she received extensive national media attention and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania..

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Andrew Shatté, Ph.D.

Andrew Shatté, Ph.D., is the vice president for research and development with Adaptiv Learning Systems, which offers resilience training for corporate, education, health care, sports, and military markets..

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