Building Confidence

1) From the Fall up lecture, what are the stages that lead to transcendence. Summarize this final stage. Why would this final stage make people more resilient?

2) From the Confidence Leads to Resilience lecture, discuss the 5 key factors to building confidence. Explain how you can apply each factor to your life so that you become more resilient.

3) Give 3 exercises/drills from the Emotional Preparedness (Confidence) section from the book, Full Throttle, that you could use to become more resilient. Do not use any exercises/drills discussed in the lecture.

4) From the Factors of Resilience lecture, pick 7 of these factors and explain how each can make someone more resilient. Explain how you can apply each factor to your life so that you become more resilient. Which factor do you think contributes most to being resilient, and why?

Question 1 he talks about thriving through the storms of life by changing your perspective. He talks about accepting the bad things that happen to you and finding peace during the storms of life. He also talks about how the relaxation response can be stronger than anxiety. He talks about using meditation to be ready for the storms of life. Finally he talks about how you transcend from tragedy and how the ultimate stage of transcending is finding your purpose.

Question 2. 1. What you say (verbal persuasion) 2. What you think (imaginal experience) 3. How you act (physiological states). 4. Living through others (vicarious experience) 5. What you do (performance accomplishment).

Question 3. Use the book full throttle by Gregg Steinburg

Question 4. 1. forgiveness 2. moving through stages of grief. 3. taking action from tragedy. 4. Develop a growth mentally. 5. Have a sense of humor. 6 letting go of outcome. 7 be rational about the situation. 8 Take control. 9 let go of what others think. 10 the Einstein factor