Resilience Cards: become more confident in the face of adversity

We often overestimate our fragility and become unnecessarily timid. This set of cards is designed to remind us that we are far stronger than we imagine, and that we can manage perfectly well with a lot less than we currently have. We should not want this to happen, but we can bear it. We forget our resilience in the face of risk and become dominated by a fear of losing things that we could in fact do without. The brain is designed to exaggerate troubles, so we suffer more in our thoughts than in reality.

Format: Cards
Length: 60 pages
Publication date: 31 July 2023
Publisher: The School of Life Press

We frequently overestimate our fragility, assuming that life would become impossible for us far earlier than it actually would. In reality, we could manage perfectly well with a lot less than we currently have. It's important to note that we shouldn't desire this to happen, of course, but it's simply that we could bear it. We often forget our resilience in the face of risk and become unnecessarily timid.

Our lives become dominated by a fear of losing things that we could in fact do without. This set of cards is designed to gently remind us that we are far stronger than we imagine.

Examples:

3 a.m. alone in bed is perhaps not the optimal moment at which to derive a true picture of reality. Wait – always – for the perspective of dawn.

Things don't need to be perfect; we are creatures eminently suited to 'good enough.' It sounds heartless to say: 'you'll get over it. But you will.'

The brain is designed to exaggerate troubles. We suffer more in our thoughts than in reality.

Dimension: 80 x 100 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781915087782