Tuesday 23 April 2013

Building resilience: self-awareness and passion


The images that surface when I am thinking about this sixth resilience factor are images of people like: Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Pope Franciscus the 1., Toon Hermans, Anky van Gunsven and my own father. All of them, people that are (or were) displaying: 1: a strong and healthy self-awareness without any narcissistic traits. 2: a passion for their profession/calling and for life as a whole. 3: Sense of purpose, in the form of a personal intrinsic mission.