{"id":1204,"date":"2022-06-16T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisnorton.org\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2022-06-17T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:05:50","slug":"adopt-this-lesson-to-be-resilient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisnorton.org\/blog\/adopt-this-lesson-to-be-resilient\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopt this Lesson to be Resilient\ud83e\udd4a"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"font-weight: 400;\" width=\"100%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<table width=\"100%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p>Hi\u00a0Friend,<\/p>\r\n<p>Living your best life requires flexibility. A willingness to adapt to the unexpected. The more rigid you are, the less resilient you will be. One of the best ways I learned to be adaptable was through a very unlikely source.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n<p>When I was in high school I did improvisational comedy on the speech team. Me and 3 of my buddies were a part of this improv group. How it works is you randomly draw 3 scenarios out of a hat and you have 2 minutes to pick one of them, figure out characters, and the closing word that lets the entire group know to stop. Your skit can not go over 5 minutes. The goal is to entertain the judges.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n<p>Possible scenario prompts might be: Chaperoning a school trip to an amusement park, school mascot on criminal trial, the first meeting of an unlikely fan club, or grand opening of a restaurant gone wrong.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n<p>As you can imagine everything is spontaneous in improv. The very first thing we learned about is the rule of \u201cYes and__\u201d Basically, regardless of what the scenario is or what comes out of someone\u2019s mouth you must not only accept it \u201cyes\u201d but also respond by adding more to it \u201cand__\u201d. This helps progress the flow of the scene and ideas. Saying \u201cno\u201d was forbidden as it stops momentum and creativity.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n<p>For example, someone might say \u201cChris, wow you have wonderful eyes.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>A poor response would be: \u201cThank you!\u201d Or \u201cNo, I do not\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>A better response would be: \u201cThank you, after I was attacked by this wild herd of cats I thought my eyes would never look the same.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n<p>It\u2019s a pretty basic concept and it was fun to force yourself into some creative rebuttal. You never knew how the skit would unfold which made it exciting.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n<p>Now, imagine adopting and applying the rule of \u201cyes and__\u201d to your life when the unexpected happens\u2026 Life is unscripted as much as we may try to plan for everything. We must be willing to embrace fate whether we want to or not because we simply can\u2019t undo the past. Life will move\u00a0forward with or without you.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nYou need to improvise, get creative, and devise a new way. The most resilient people are also the best at improvising life\u2019s curveballs. They just keep going. Like the boxer in the ring taking hit after hit. \ud83e\udd4a You get knocked down \ud83d\udc49 <em>Yes and__<\/em>\u00a0 \ud83e\udd4a You get hit another time \ud83d\udc49 <em>Yes and__!<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n<p>Marcus Aurelius sums this up in <em>Meditations<\/em> with this quote:<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<table style=\"font-weight: 400;\" width=\"100%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<table width=\"100%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<table width=\"100%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p>\u201cYou must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible\u2014and no one can keep you from this. But there will be some external obstacle! Perhaps, but no obstacle to acting with justice, self-control, and wisdom.<br \/>\r\nBut what if some other area of my action is thwarted? Well, gladly accept the obstacle for what it is and shift your attention to what is given, and another action will immediately take its place, one that better fits the life you are building.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<table style=\"font-weight: 400;\" width=\"100%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<table width=\"100%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<p>Take care,<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nChris<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi\u00a0Friend, Living your best life requires flexibility. A willingness to adapt to the unexpected. 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