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Legions of self-help writers rightly need personal development as the main element to happiness, nonetheless they typically neglect to concentrate on its most significant target: hardiness. Though whatever doesn't eliminate us can make us more powerful, as Nietzsche explains to us, few writers today offer any understanding into how to springboard from adversity to strength. It doesn't just happen automatically, and it requires practice. New scientific research shows that resilience isn't something with which only a lucky handful of us have been created, but rather something we can all take specific action to develop. To build strength out of adversity, we need a catalyst. What we need, corresponding to Dr. Alex Lickerman, is intelligence - intelligence that adversity has the potential to instruct us. Lickerman's underlying idea is our ability to regulate what goes on to us in life may be limited, but we have the capability to set up a life-state to surmount the suffering life brings us. The Undefeated Head distills the intelligence we have to create true resilience into nine core principles, including:
- A new description of victory and its relevance to joy
- The idea of the changing of poison into remedies
- A way to view prayer as a vow we make to ourselves.
- A method of setting objectives that improves our ability to put up with disappointment and minimizes the probability of quitting
- An approach to taking personal responsibility and moral action that improves resilience
- A process for taking care of pain - both physical and mental - that allows us to push through obstacles that might normally prevent us from attaining our goals
- A method of leveraging our interactions with others that helps us manifest our strongest selves
