Resilient

Outline

Resilient (2018) shows how to build lasting inner strengths that help people stay calm, happy, and capable during difficult times. Rick Hanson with Forrest Hanson explains twelve key strengths, including compassion, mindfulness, grit, gratitude, confidence, calm, courage, and generosity, and draws on neuroscience to show how repeated positive experiences can shape the brain. The book offers practical exercises for everyday resilience.

• Lasting inner strengths help you stay calm, happy and capable when times are difficult.
• The book explains twelve key strengths, including compassion, mindfulness, grit, gratitude, confidence, calm, courage and generosity.
• Repeated positive experiences can shape the brain, according to the neuroscience the authors draw on.
• Resilience is built through practical exercises you can fit into everyday life.

Rick Hanson with Forrest Hanson combines psychology research with accessible writing. Rick Hanson is an American psychologist and senior fellow at the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley, whose books include Hardwiring Happiness. His son Forrest Hanson is a writer and co-host with him of a popular podcast about well-being.