Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast.

This episode is part of our Skills Sprint series. We've recorded 20 episodes each less than seven

minutes long that we hope we're going to help you to build some career development momentum.

In every episode we talk about a squiggly skill, what it is and why it matters, share an idea for action each and give you a go-to guru and a podcast episode so you can learn more.

And we want you to turn your skills sprint into a learning streak.

And so for everyone who completes a 20-day learning street, we'll be offering you a free five skills to succeed in a squiggly career virtual

workshop in September. If you post about your progress on social and taggers at Amazing If,

and we'll be in touch to tell you more. In this skill sprint, we're going to be talking about

resilience. And this is one of the topics that we covered in our book, UKHU. So I feel like we spent

quite a lot time on the topic of resilience.

And when we wrote UKHU as well, it was during the pandemic.

So I think we personally were being resilient.

We were living the dream.

We definitely needed it.

And there's a nice quote, I think, which helps us to understand like what resilience is

that comes from Adam Grant.

And he says it is the strength and speed of your response to adversity.

And I really like that because it makes me almost evaluate when I'm in a situation how like powerfully am I responding to that problem and also how quickly.

And I feel like I can almost sort of coach myself by looking at that as a quote.

Though we sometimes feel that it puts a bit of pressure on people.

Like I don't like just recover quickly.

The speed bit I do think depends on the context and the naughty problem that you're

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