Besides being a popular meme and a quote wrongly attributed to Clint Eastwood, "Improvise, adapt, and overcome" is one of the most used slogans in the United States Marine Corps.
As surprising as this may be, the main elements cherished in the slogan are the same that characterize resilience.
Resilience is about "bouncing forward" while dealing with difficult situations and significant obstacles in life while finding a suitable way to react, adapt in order to move forward, and create a positive outcome for us.
Even if it's a popular misconception, resilience is not about surviving, it is about thriving and experiencing growth even when the external conditions could be less than favorable.
[Improvising can make you more resilient.
Who would have expected that?]
A good training for building up resilience?
Learning how to improvise and adapt to new situations, change of plans, unforeseen events, last-minute requests not because we have to and we are forced by the circumstances, but because we want to and we want to do it our own way.
Coaching question of the day:
"How good are you at improvising?"
Tags: Coaching question, Self-coaching, Self-awareness, Self-reflection, Resilience, Improvising, Being adaptable
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