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...
Mar 7, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
I had a coaching session today, which reaffirmed the simplicity and power of the 4C’s mental toughness framework. It is so simple to understand, communicate and use for personal development across many different situations. I felt it was worth revisiting through a...
Mar 3, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
This study by a team of Finnish researchers mapping the links between bodily sensations and emotions of 701 participants found that happiness, more than any other emotion, activates the whole body. The researchers induced different emotions in the participants and...
Feb 28, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Original post from Mental Toughness Partners. MENTAL TOUGHNESS AND BENJAMIN HARDY’S EXCELLENT ‘TWO MENTAL SHIFTS’ ARTICLE Every once in a while you read a thoroughly intelligent, thought provoking article and Benjamin Hardy’s ‘The 2 Mental Shifts Highly Successful...
Feb 28, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Original Post from Paul Lyons at Mental Toughness Partners I used to think happiness was a range of positive emotions that could equally appear and disappear at the whim of someone else, only to be replaced with negative feelings such as sadness, doubt and grief. Now...
Feb 20, 2017 | ASEAN, Employability, Mental Toughness
Original post from Mental Toughness Partners Society seems to reward overconfident people much more than the rest of us. Why is that? Apparently it is because people who are overconfident in their own abilities are considered more talented by others than they really...
