Six Steps to Overcoming Adversity: Turning Setbacks into Comebacks

Welcome! This module introduces the six steps to turn setbacks into comebacks. Learn how to educate, inspire, and find practicality in adversity. Discover the power of giving back, reflecting Jack Dweck's mission: to help others thrive.

“Welcome everyone to the six steps to overcoming adversity.”

Embrace challenges with a positive outlook. Cultivate unwavering faith as your foundation. This module helps you build resilience and find strength in adversity. Remember, optimism isn't ignoring the problem, it's believing in your ability to overcome it.

“Step one was facing into adversity with optimism and faith”

Release negative emotions to create space for healing. Learn techniques to let go of anger and blame, paving the way for forgiveness and moving forward. Understand that holding onto negativity only hinders your progress and well-being.

“Step two is letting go of anger and blame”

Identify and understand the valuable lessons hidden within challenging experiences. This module helps you extract wisdom from setbacks, turning them into opportunities for personal growth and a stronger future. Adversity, when understood, becomes a powerful teacher.

“Step three is learning the lessons”

Focus on what you can control and express gratitude for your abilities and resources. This module helps you shift your perspective towards empowerment and recognizing the strengths you already possess. Gratitude is the antidote to despair.

“Step four was appreciating everything we can do”

Cultivate a daily habit of giving, even in small amounts. This fosters connection and purpose. By giving a little each day you are creating a habit that will serve as a cue for more kind acts. Small gestures are the seed for larger changes. This is a simple technique drawing on the concept of habit formation and positive reinforcement

“Should I give thirty six hundred and fifty dollars a year to charity on January first of the year or should I give ten dollars a day every day of the year? the answer is the latter.”

Volunteer at a local organization. Volunteering triggers the 'helper's high', improving well-being. This action supports pro-social behaviour and creates social connections which have been show to improve mental wellness.

“The first advice I give people that are unemployed is to go volunteer do some volunteer work go volunteer in a soup kitchen go hand out meals of you know to to poor to poor people and and you when that happens good things happen”

Journal about your act of altruism each week. Reflecting on your actions reinforces the positive feelings associated with helping others. Altruism is directly correlated to good health and increases happiness. Use this time to reinforce the benefits you feel.

“The responses that we saw in new york city uh to 911 were some some of them were incredibly amazingly uh beautiful and kind and and i i believe that people have something called altruism born of suffering.”