A short motivational monologue on resilience presented by Nataliey Bitature. The speaker defines resilience as grit and the ability to push past obstacles and pain, argues it distinguishes successful people, and gives practical advice: don’t change your goal when plans fail—change the plan, seek new perspectives and advice, and persist through difficult moments. The talk uses examples from exercise, work, and personal life to illustrate pushing past pain leads to growth and success.
Chapters
Resilience. Resilience is the number one trait studies have found that differentiate a successful person from an unsuccessful person. The moment when other people give up, that's the moment you need to push past. If you're going to get what they don't have. To be resilient is to have grit. It's to be able to overcome obstacles, to keep going, to push past even when it gets hard. It's an important quality to have, and it's an important quality to start to practice. No one wakes up one day and is resilient. No one wakes up one day and can get through difficult situations. But there is no successful person that has had an easy path. Successful people are people who are able to push past. When it is challenging, when it's hard, when it's boring, when people keep saying no, when the opportunity seems like all is lost. Successful people are able to see a new way. If your plan is not working to achieve your goal, don't change the goal, change the plan. If things are getting tough and you don't know what to do, take a step back. Think about it in a different way. Look for a different perspective. Get some, some advice. Try something new. Don't give up. To be resilient is to not give up. If you have a goal and it's something that you want to achieve, you've got to find different routes to get there, to find a way to get to what you're looking for. And resilience is an inner strength. It's the courage and the ability to be brave or the ability to be strong, to get through the path that you don't want to do. Even when it's raining and cold, you showed up in the morning, and even when there was no one to help you, you did it anyways. Even when your back was hurting and your feet were hurting and you were tired and you just wanted to give up, you pushed past and you stayed with it. People who work out a lot know that point of pain, and they know that that's when they're getting the gains. If you just lift a weight a few times and it doesn't hurt, you've done nothing once it starts to hurt, but you continue and you get it done, that's when you're going to see a difference. That's when you see the change. So. So even with your personal life, or with a business or with your job, you have to push past the part that gets hard. If at every time something gets a bit difficult or challenging or not what you expected, you're like, ah, ah. Okay, I'm done. Let's do something else. You'll never achieve a goal. You'll never get through to something that's worthwhile or have something that you're proud of that you know you suffered through and you struggled for and have a result that's extraordinary. So if it's something that is important to you, it's important to know that you have to push past the hard part. Don't just plan for do this, this and this, and everything will go according to the plan and it will be great because things will not go according to the plan. There will be an obstacle, there'll be someone in your way, there'll be a challenge. You might not have enough money or time or ability to do what you want to do. It's that creativity and that ability to push past and even continue when you are not sure how you should even continue to make a whole new plan to get the right kind of advice, to see how can I get there. Let me not give up on the darkest moment before you go to bed at night or in the morning when you wa up and you're like, I have this problem, how am I going to solve it? That ability to think, how can I solve it? That attitude is how you can be more resilient.
