138. The Keys to Ordinary Resilience with Luis Velasquez

Overview

We hear a lot about resilience these days. We say people who overcome obstacles and challenges in life and work must be so resilient. But is that the only way to build our resilience muscles? What does it mean to build resilience in practice?

Today I’m joined again by Luis Velasquez to dig into how we build the resilience that allows us to face challenges and not only survive, but thrive.

Building resilience as Luis defines it is essential to Sustainable Ambition, both to grow in and navigate our careers over time, and to create the lives we desire and sustain ourselves in the process. It’s about taking small steps, right now, to develop our ability to tolerate discomfort and uncertainty, so that we can see obstacles as opportunities, rather than challenges.

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More About Our Guest

Luis Velasquez is an executive coach in Silicon Valley and a facilitator for the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Once a university professor and research scientist, Luis helps mid-level managers to C-suite executives around the world learn, adapt, grow, and thrive by showing them how to reframe their challenges and take the most beneficial next step. Luis is a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Fast Company.

Listen to the full episode to hear:

• The three key components of building resilience in difficult times

• How love and acceptance for where you are and what you have right now opens the door for progress

• Building resilience in incremental changes, actions, and adaptations

• How big, aspirational goals support growth and teach us to pivot

• How to reconsider and rethink failure, and how it can help us move in the next right direction

• The importance of supportive relationships in helping us know ourselves

Learn more about Luis Velasquez:

• Velas Coaching

• Connect on LinkedIn

Resources Mentioned

• Ordinary Resilience: Rethinking How Effective Leaders Adapt and Thrive

• 82. On Living and Working with Ordinary Resilience with Luis Velasquez 

• Strategies for Learning from Failure, Amy Edmondson

• 5 Relationships You Need to Build a Successful Career

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