Title: How Adversity Makes You Stronger
Headings: How Adversity Makes You Stronger
How Adversity Makes You Stronger
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They build self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is the belief or the confidence in your ability to overcome obstacles and challenges and succeed. I spent almost four years working in a program that taught Army drill sergeants how to teach resilience strategies to other soldiers in their units. During my very first training, I discovered that the training team had to dance into the plenary room, in front of 180 soldiers, as a funny way to illustrate a block of instruction. Since I dance like Elaine from Seinfeld, I had a panic attack in the moments leading up to “the dance” and literally had to hang onto my colleague’s arm to make it through. What was odd was my brain’s reaction to the exercise in the moments and days that followed. While it was a truly unpleasant experience, I survived, and that triggered my brain to think about what other tough challenges could I conquer. That is self-efficacy, and it’s developed in three specific ways.