Hardiness
Hardiness is a personality style of dealing with problems. It begins as a mindset made up of the attitudes of commitment, control and challenge and the complementary skills of coping and social support. Hardiness gives you toughness, the courage to grow from stress.
If you are hardy, you express these attitudes and skills on an everyday basis, no matter what's happening in your life.
To be strong in commitment means believing that being involved with tasks, people, and contexts is the best way to find meaningful purpose in life. You will be infinitely curious about what is going on around you, and this will lead you to find interactions with people and situations stimulating and meaningful. Feeling alienated and isolated will seem like a waste of time.
To be strong in control involves believing that, through personal struggle, you can usually influence the directions and outcomes going on around you. Lapsing into powerlessness and passivity will seem like a waste of time.
To be strong in challenge means believing that personal improvement and fulfillment come through the continual process of learning from both negative and positive experiences. It will seem not only unrealistic but also stultifying to simply expect comfort and security to be handed to you.
HardiAttitudes put you into a coping mindset that motivate you to transform the stressors you have into opportunities for new learning, growth, and living the best life possible.
in Get Hardy
Psychology Today
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