The Opportunity of Adversity
20 February 2010 in Musings Write by Paolo TerniAmazing & inspiring talk by Aimee Mullins.
… Implicit in this phrase of overcoming adversity is the idea that success or happiness is about emerging on the other side of a challenging experience unscathed, unmarked by the experience… but in fact we are changed, we are marked, of course by a challenge… and I am going to suggest it is a good thing. Adversity is not an obstacle we need to get around in order to resume living our life… it is part of our life.
Should be required viewing for all coaches, trainers or psychologists.
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Dr. Paolo Terni is a Professionally Certified Coach with the ICF (International Coach Federation) and the author of the book “Coaching Leader: how to transform individual talent into business results” (Guerini Editore, 2007, Milano, Italy). He has also written many papers on the impact of current psychological research on consulting and coaching practices – his writings have been published in the book Doing Something Different: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Practices (Edited by Thorana Nelson, 2010, Routledge, NY), in Inter-Action: the Journal of Solution-Focus in Organizations, and other Journals. Dr. Terni has trained extensively in the US (Coach U, NLP Master Practitioner @ University of California at Santa Cruz with Robert Dilts) and is bi-lingual (English and Italian).
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Wow!
She is amazing. This is very inspiring! And I totally agree about how powerful words and language is. I bet Wittgenstein would agree, too!
By the way, Why isnt there a “share” button for tweeting it directly from your page?
Nini,
thanks for your comment – I was very inspired by this video.
And yes, probably Wittgenstein would agree too!!
:)
Re tweeting from the website: good point.
I usually don’t do it, I copy the link on the tweet because I want to add my comment, but you are right – time to do it!! :))
Thanks,
cheers,
Paolo
Awesome! I believe what Aimee says is the truth. It would be nice if teachers thought this way as well.
Thank you for your comment, Rick.
I agree – in our culture there is a tendency to think that discomfort is to be avoided at all costs and that if bad things happen they are enemies to overcome.
Instead, adversity is part of life and we need to make friends with it…