Principles to strengthen your resilience

Know your capabilities and limitations to avoid learned helplessness

To strengthen our resilience, we can follow several principles. First, be clear about our capabilities and limitations.

This is crucial to avoid facing challenges we are not prepared for, which could lead to learned helplessness.

Be a realistic optimist and develop flexibility and creativity.

Second, be realistic optimists.

Third, develop our flexibility and creativity to face difficult situations, looking for new solutions.

See difficulties as challenges and maintain healthy relationships.

Fourth, see difficulties as challenges and learning opportunities.

Fifth, maintain healthy relationships and know who to surround yourself with in difficult times.

Distinguish control, get out of your comfort zone, and develop patience.

Sixth, distinguish what is under our control and what is not.

Seventh, get out of our comfort zone regularly and gradually.

And eighth, develop patience and discipline, understanding that improvement takes time.

Summary

To strengthen resilience, it is vital to know our capabilities and limitations, avoiding facing challenges for which we are not prepared and pre