Growth Mindset: Resiliency

For this week's Growth Mindset challenge, I read an article from The New Yorker called How People Learn to Become Resilient by Maria Konnikova. One reason I believe that resiliency is so important is because of its role in emotional intelligence. According to Management by Angelo Kinicki, emotional intelligence is "the ability to monitor your and others' feelings and to use this information to guide your thinking and actions." Furthermore, recent research shows that those with high emotional intelligence are more likely to be associated with:

1. Better social relations for children and adults
2. Better family and intimate relationships
3. Being perceived more positively by others
4. Better academic achievement
5. Better psychological well-being 

All of these byproducts of high emotional intelligence are traits that employers look for in their employees, because, to name a few reasons, with these traits you are more likely to get along with your fellow employees and also because if you are not distracted by your emotions, you can work more efficiently. Resiliency plays a huge part in emotional intelligence because if something negative does happen to you, it is important to be able to bounce back quickly and not let your emotions get the best of you.

Perception is key to resiliency. Source: The New Yorker. 

How do you perceive everything that happens to you? As my mother always says, you can look at your glass half empty or half full.