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#88 - How Resilient Are You? Test Yourself and Grow!
This post will be different than usual. The Resilience Center run by Dr. Gail Wagnild - an expert on individual resilience, offers the resilience assessments tools. I want to invite to take two fun tests available on their website and see how much we learnt together about resilience and what new insights we can get from the Resilience Center.
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Jul 9, 20254 min read


#80 - Let's have some resilient fun: The Story of The Two Bags
"Every man carries Two Bags about with him, one in front and one behind, and both are packed full of faults. The Bag in front contains his neighbours’ faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
May 14, 20253 min read


#72 - What Makes a Good Career?
If you work 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for 40 years, your career will last approximately 80,000 hours.
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Mar 19, 20254 min read


#67 - Generational Change as a Driver for Progress
Does a community need generational change to progress from one stage of development to another? After an article about innovation...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Feb 3, 20252 min read


#65 - Let's have some resilient fun: Can Shopping Become an Adventure?
"Let's have some resilient fun" shows some important topics in a more relaxed and joyful way. After all, humour is quoted as a desirable...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Jan 22, 20253 min read


#62 - Resilient New Year
How was your 2024, great, good, bad? Year-end is, for many of us, the time when we look back at our goals, evaluate, make New Year’s...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Jan 2, 20253 min read


#59 - The Mindset of the Long Distance Runner
What drives success, whether in writing, running, or life's broader pursuits? Is it talent, consistency, perseverance, or perhaps...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Dec 4, 20245 min read


#44 - What is Information?
Numbers That Matter: Simple Lessons for a Resilient Life!" Every number tells a story, and in this series, I dive into how those stories...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Aug 22, 20243 min read


#37 Nothing like a good funeral to put things in perspective!
Memento mori is not about cultivating a fear of death, but rather about using the awareness of death for reflection on how we live.
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Jul 4, 20242 min read


#35 Do you have your mental readiness checklist?
Do you have a specific routine or a checklist to assess your readiness to work? How do you do this? I have been thinking about this a...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Jun 19, 20243 min read


#29 Wings for Life
On Sunday, I participated, together with my Monika, in Wings for Life Run. The Wings for Life World Run is a running competition, which...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
May 9, 20242 min read


#28 - 10 Thousand Hours to Heaven
What does it take to become an expert? 10 thousand hours is a common threshold indicating the min effort to reach it.
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
May 1, 20243 min read


#27 The Unexpected Ally: How AI Could Help Rebuild the Middle Class and Boost Our Resilience
The article "How AI Could Help Rebuild the Middle Class" by Professor David Autor made me think about unpredictable nature of complex...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Apr 25, 20242 min read


#26 Superforecaster mind
Is Forecasting Political and Economic Events Feasible? Many researchers argue that forecasters are prone to multiple errors - they are...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Apr 16, 20243 min read


#25 The Magical Number 7: The Key to Improvisation
Have you ever been in a situation where you had to think on your feet? Maybe it was a surprise client visit or a sudden change in the...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Apr 10, 20243 min read


#24 Resilience in paragliding
Short video from a wonderful paragliding trip with Magiclift in Panchgani, India, long after my first flight. Over the past few weeks, I...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Apr 4, 20243 min read


#23 - 188 Cognitive Biases
Cognitive biases codex is a wonderful piece of work, which brings together all or perhaps most of cognitive biases of humans. If you...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Mar 28, 20243 min read


#20 Achieve, experience, or learn from obstacles?
I have been reading over the weekend a very insightful book: Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back. Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy provide...
Adam Pawel Pietruszewski
Mar 6, 20244 min read
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