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Stoic Optimism: Ryan Holiday at TEDxUChicago 2014

2014

Ryan Holiday is the Director of Marketing at American Apparel and the author of “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage” (May 2014), a manual for approaching the obstacles we face in life and flipping them into advantages.

21:47 min

Black Wall Street Today: The Community Was Not Destroyed

White masses, laced with anger and jealousy, armed with white supremacy, propaganda, and the powers afforded to them by the Jim Crow South, did carry out one of the worse incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

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Tanya A. Christian
2021
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

In 2015 Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly at the age of forty-eight. Sandberg and her two young children were devastated, and she was certain that their lives would never have real joy or meaning again.

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Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
2019
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How to Train Your Brain to Be More Optimistic

The glass is half full—here’s how to see it that way.

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Brianna Steinhilber
2017
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Resilience: Build Skills to Endure Hardship

Resilience means being able to adapt to life’s misfortunes and setbacks. Test your resilience level and get tips to build your own resilience.

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Mayo Clinic Staff
2020
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Resilience: How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free from the Past

Renowned French neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst Boris Cyrulnik’s parents were deported to a concentration camp during the Second World War. They never returned.

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Boris Cyrulnik
2011
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The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life’s Hurdles

Resilience is a crucial ingredient—perhaps the crucial ingredient—to a happy, healthy life. More than anything else, it’s what determines how high we rise above what threatens to wear us down, from battling an illness, to bolstering a marriage, to carrying on after a national crisis.

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Karen Reivich, Andrew Shatte
2025
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Mind Gym: An Athlete’s Guide to Inner Excellence

In Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so.

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Gary Mack, David Casstevens
2002
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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius was born in Rome in 121 AD and would be its Emperor from 161 to 180. Considered by Machiavelli as the last of the good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius would become one of the most important of the Stoic philosophers.

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Marcus Aurelius
2025
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FindCenter Quotes ImageExcessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

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George Leonard
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How to Hardwire Resilience into Your Brain

We’ll be better prepared for life’s challenges if we cultivate these 12 inner strengths.

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Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson
2018
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