Developing Your Mental Resilience
SUMMARY
Do you feel like your mental capacity is draining away most of the time? I know how that feels. It's something that had a major hold on me and cost me a lot of happiness and my health.
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, leadership and sustainable performance coach, and today I want to continue our conversation around resilience by helping you develop your mental resilience.
Let's look at 3 key differences between mental toughness and mental resilience:
1. Adapting vs. Enduring
2. Recovery vs. Pushing Through
3. Balance vs. Performance
TRANSCRIPT
Do you feel like your mental capacity is draining away most of the time?
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, leadership and sustainable performance coach, and today I want to continue our conversation around resilience by helping you develop your mental resilience.
I want to make a distinction between two things: mental toughness and mental resilience. Sometimes people put them in the same box, but they are not the same. Using the wrong strategies to develop one, when you need the other, won't help you — it will harm you.
Mental resilience is essential for sustaining your performance over time and maintaining your health and well-being.
Mental toughness is about pushing through. It's all about maintaining high performance under intense pressure.
Mental toughness is needed for high-performance situations, but mental resilience ensures longevity. Mental resilience is what you want to maintain at all times.
Let us look at 3 key differences between them:
1. Adapting vs. Enduring — Mental resilience is about adapting to change and returning to a balanced state. Mental toughness is about enduring pressure and persisting.
2. Recovery vs. Pushing Through — Resilient individuals recover from setbacks and regain balance. In contrast, mentally tough individuals keep pushing through challenges, often losing awareness of their mental well-being.
3. Balance vs. Performance — Mental resilience prioritises emotional and psychological balance during stress or adversity. Mental toughness focuses on sustaining high performance.
So, what are you operating out of most of the time? Are you maintaining your balance by building mental resilience, or are you just being mentally tough? I'll see you then.
