Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Why most of us are a bit of both and why that matters. Superhero stories are very popular. They can intrigue all of us. One reason is that they can reflect our lives or perhaps our wishes and yet the superhero is somehow not too unlike us for us not to identify with...
Jul 10, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
“We’re high performers here. We always deliver. So why does anyone here think we have a wellbeing problem?” Really! This is a comment we got from a senior manager in a large multinational with whom we were working as we came to the end of a diagnostic phase on a...
Jul 5, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness, Social/Third Sector
An option for developing interventions that protect mental health workers. A new study (May 2023) carried out by researchers at Newcastle University and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust has shed light on a major issue for mental health...
Jul 3, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
How the 8-factor mental toughness concept brings this into focus We are often told that “goals and goal setting are the sources of drive”. Are they? Is this really enough? Our work on the mental toughness concept has perhaps enabled us to develop a more subtle, more...
Jun 26, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” Franklin D Roosevelt A common misconception is that mental toughness means that you become fearless, treating setbacks and obstacles with disdain. They just bounce off you. That is simply not the case. As the research in...
Jun 26, 2023 | Mental Toughness, Update
The Global Advisory Board A Global initiative Now in its third year, ICMTRD was established to support and encourage the development of the mental toughness concept with a particular emphasis on practical application which is based on sound evidence. At the heart of...
