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If resilience is defined as the ability to
Dear Grade 7s adapt to change, then what you have
I have a small admission to make, shown in this past year is incredible
nothing big, just something about resilience, and while it may not be
me that you probably didn’t know. I obvious to you now, in time you may
often wonder just how far I can push look back at this era in your life where
myself physically. It’s no wonder then you attended school in a pandemic,
that I am drawn to certain reality and realise just how resilient it made
shows, like Survivor, where you, just how adaptable and used to
contestants have to survive in the change you have become.
wild and compete against one
another for the ultimate prize of sole But like all good superheroes,
survivor. Did you know I once resilience has a partner, a sidekick, a
entered Survivor SA and got down to wingman of sorts, kind of like Batman
the last 600 contestants (not much and Robin, Sherlock Holmes &
of a claim to fame, I know!).
Watson, or Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid.
The contestants on these shows are
often described as having incredible If you really want to get the full benefit
resilience. But what is resilience and from being resilient, then it must go
if it’s such a good thing to have, how hand-in-hand with inner strength;
does one develop it?
that internal knowing of who you are
and what you stand for.
While surviving on a deserted island Just having resilience alone is like a
with little food and water is certainly rudderless ship out at sea, you might
an enormous physical and mental be able to withstand the surging sea
challenge, I believe resilience can be and mighty waves, but you get tossed
cultivated in many other ways too, around in every direction, powerless
not just through mental or physical to external forces, and ultimately you
extremes.
are left depleted and beaten.
