Transcript Resilience - Belmont Teach

What happens when things are tough
or difficult to do or learn?
Do you sometimes feel like:
I can’t do it
 This is pointless
 I might as well give up
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It is at this point that you may feel
that you have failed……..
However, everyone has gone through this at some
point, it is a part of learning.
This person was cut from the high school basketball
team. He went home, locked himself in his room and
cried …..
….his name is Michael Jordan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc
2 Olympic Gold Medals
6 NBA Championship rings
5 NBA MVPs
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Told by a music teacher "as a composer he is hopeless" –
Beethoven
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Fired from a newspaper because he "lacked imagination
and had no original ideas“. Legend has it he was turned
down 302 times before securing finance for Disney World.
- Walt Disney
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Twelve publishers rejected the manuscript for the first Harry
Potter book– JK Rowling
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Rejected from the University of Southern California School of
Theater, Film and Television three times – Stephen Spielberg
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Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985.
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Jobs felt despair and rejection but funnelled his energy into new
ventures (like Pixar) before returning to Apple in 1996.
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He went on to change the digital world by inventing amongst
other things the iPad and iPhone and saved the company.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWt
mcBpai9k
Team Hoyt – father and son
 Marathon runners and Iron Men
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What helps you to be resilient in school?
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Knowing what distracts you from learning and settling quickly
after a disruption
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Noticing the areas of your learning you are good at and using
them
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Not being put off by difficulties and finding ways to overcome
them
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Knowing what it is like to be engrossed in a task, not knowing
that time is passing
How can you be resilient?
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Stay Positive
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Practise
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Persist
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Persevere
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Stay involved
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Don’t give up
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Don’t be daunted by challenge
Take Control!
So don’t give up, keep trying, as this is the
route to success.