Mar 15, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Original post from Mental Toughness Partners One of the key definitions of the personality trait mental toughness as described by the rock stars of mental toughness, Professor Peter Clough and Doug Strycharczyk, involves stress. They define mental toughness as “the...
Mar 14, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Original post from Mental Toughness Partners As a mental toughness practitioner, I’m always talking about the importance of going beyond your comfort zone and becoming comfortable in being uncomfortable. Invariably that means overriding your body’s inbuilt “risk...
Mar 13, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Original post from Mental Toughness Partners Reading the transcript of this recent stress interview between an experienced HR professional and a potential graduate trainee in Hong Kong reinforced that there IS a better way of testing a candidate’s ability to perform...
Mar 10, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
A characteristic of being mentally tough is that you spot and seize opportunities to make things happen. Your openness and flexibility to seeing and adopting new ideas means that you naturally find better ways quicker and faster. This is a feature of the Challenge C...
Mar 9, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
In a recent post, I wrote about the ‘Benefits of Failure’ in which the author JK Rowling explained the practical advantage of failing. She believes that failure is a part of success, not opposite to success. In this post Donald Latumahina, author of the outstanding...
Mar 8, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
OR ARE WE JUST MORE RISK AVERSE AND THANKFUL FOR ‘SMALL MERCIES’? Whilst there are some undoubtedly unpleasant aspects of growing older, a study reported by Psyblog suggests that aging changes what makes you happy and that you are more likely than younger people to...
