Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Month: August 2014 (Page 2 of 2)
According to psychologists, the so-called resilience is our ability to bounce back when faced with a variety of challenges. It is a very complex process and none of us is perfect—we all have moments when we do not appear to be very well adapted to the conditions we are facing. By the way, research has shown that resilience is ordinary, not extraordinary. People commonly demonstrate resilience.
One example is the response of many Americans to 9/11 and individuals’ efforts to rebuild their lives. In order to develop this much more crucial soft skill in the American contemporary society, the Road2Resilience website has been launched a couple of years ago.
It represents the digital manifestation of a very big idea in order to advance the cause of national resilience by highlighting innovative ideas in emergency management, homeland security and crisis planning.
The hard road to resilience involves behaviours, thoughts and actions that can be learned and developed at every level of the American society to respond quickly and wisely to future crises.
Image source: CNN
Author: Teodora Danisi
Eric Barker from Time Online Magazine and from the blog Barking Up The Wrong Tree suggests 7 ways to increase your willpower and live a better life:
- “Keystone Habits” Are A Magic Bullet
- Do Important Things Early
- Improve Willpower By Not Using Willpower
- Use Willpower To Build Willpower
- Fundamentals: Eat And Sleep
- Procrastinating Can Improve Willpower
- You’re Going To Screw Up… and That’s Okay!
Read more on: 7 Ways You Can Easily Increase Your Willpower
Image source: Flickr – Pollobarba
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
Image source – Flickr – Emmanuel Huybrechts – (CC BY 2.0)
The Diplocalendar 2014 realised by S. Baldi and E. Gelbstein is dedicated to “Cybersecurity: Guidelines for diplomats” and is based on the assumption that “Cyberspace is inherently insecure“.
For the month of August the attention is drawn on “Flash Memory”
Image: Diplofoundation
The set of images used in the Diplocalendar 2014 can also be consulted on Slideshare
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