Building resilience can help us become better learners. Let’s outline four tools that can help make that happen by Trevor Ragan and Alex Belser PART 1 Challenges, obstacles, adversity, and struggle are inevitable in life – especially when we choose to spend more time out of our comfort zone. They’re going to happen – we can’t change, or control, that....
Lifting weights is essentially struggling on purpose. We understand the basics of how to build a muscle. So we pick a weight and exercise that induces resistance and tension, which leads to struggle, which leads to growth. Learning can be the same. When we teach people the basics of how their brain learns – and that creativity, innovation, and growth...
It’s easier to eat out. It’s better to cook at home. It’s easier to play someone that you know you can beat. It’s better to play the person who might beat you. It’s easier to read the SparkNotes. It’s better to read the book. It’s easier to do it how it’s always been done. It’s better to challenge, stretch, and...
I’m squatting, you’re spotting. The goal: 12 reps Reps 1-3: no prob Reps 4-7: not bad either, but I’m starting to feel it Rep 8: It gets hard and I start to struggle a bit You jump in and do the last 4 reps for me. I feel better, you feel helpful… but my reps have been robbed! Obviously this...