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There are a wide variety of things that people need to grow, but the following three elements are considered to be important.

1. Experience and learning

Diverse experiences: Broaden your horizons and acquire knowledge and skills through various experiences such as new environments, challenges, and failures.
Introspection and reflection: Rather than simply accumulating experience, self-reflection and learning from it will lead to growth.
Continuous learning: In today's rapidly changing world, it is important to be constantly learning new knowledge and skills.
2. Self-understanding and goal setting

Self-understanding: Understanding your strengths, weaknesses, values, etc. and accepting yourself is the first step to growth.
Goal setting: Setting specific goals and working toward them will help you feel like you're making progress.
Self-affirmation: Having a positive view of yourself and having confidence gives you the strength to face difficult situations.

 

3. Relationships with those around you

Good relationships: Relationships with people you can trust provide emotional support and promote growth.

Mentors and role models: Having a role model or a mentor who can give you advice is a great help in growth.

Participating in a community: Interacting with peers who share the same goals can increase motivation and give you new perspectives.

These elements influence each other and promote personal growth.

Other factors that promote growth

Curiosity: Interest and a desire to explore new things increase motivation to learn.

Challenge: Being open to new things without fear of failure increases opportunities for growth.

Flexibility: Being able to flexibly respond to changing situations gives you the strength to overcome difficulties.

Resilience: The ability to bounce back even in difficult situations and use it to grow.

By being aware of these elements and incorporating them into your daily life, you can continue to grow throughout your life.

 

Specific methods

Reading: Reading books in various fields can broaden your knowledge and perspective.

Participating in seminars and workshops: This is an opportunity to acquire specialized knowledge and skills.

Trying new hobbies and skills: This is an opportunity to broaden your potential.

Diary and reflection: You can organize your thoughts and feelings and feel your growth.

Coaching: You can work towards achieving your goals with the support of an expert.

Everyone has their own way of growing. Find the method that suits you and aim to grow while having fun.

As concrete examples of resilience, we will introduce how to bounce back in the following three situations.

**1. When you make a big mistake at work**

* **If you have low resilience:** You continue to blame yourself, lose confidence, and this negatively affects your next job.

* **If you have high resilience:**
* Calmly analyze the cause of the failure, think of ways to improve, and use it next time.
* Ask for help from those around you and bounce back with support.
* Use what you learned from the failure as an opportunity for growth.

**Example:** You fail at a presentation for a new product and lose out on a contract. A person with high resilience will analyze areas to improve the presentation and customer needs, and use them in the next presentation. Also, by consulting with your boss or colleagues and receiving advice and encouragement, you will regain a positive attitude.

**2. When you experience a breakup with a loved one**

* **If you have low resilience:** You are overcome with grief, are unable to bounce back, and it interferes with your daily life.
* **If you have high resilience:**

* Feel and accept the sadness and loss.

* Move forward little by little with the support of those around you.

* Overcome the experience of the breakup and find a new goal and purpose in life.

**Example:** After breaking up with a partner, a person with high resilience does not try to suppress their sadness, but instead cries or talks with friends to sort out their emotions. Then, by starting a new hobby or devoting themselves to work, they gradually heal their emotional wounds.

**3. When encountering a natural disaster or accident**

* **If you have low resilience:** They are shocked and suffer great psychological damage, such as developing PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).

* **If you have high resilience:**

* Accept the current situation and act calmly.

* Cooperate with those around you and help each other to overcome difficulties.

* Learn from disasters and accidents, raise disaster prevention awareness, and create new communities.

**Example:** A highly resilient person whose home is damaged in an earthquake will not panic, will ensure their safety, and will gather necessary information. At the evacuation shelter, they will cooperate with other disaster victims and make an effort to rebuild their lives. They will also learn from their experience in the earthquake by preparing disaster prevention goods and participating in local disaster prevention activities.

As you can see from these examples, resilience is the ability to overcome difficult situations and use them to grow. It is important to increase your resilience in order to use difficulties as a springboard to live stronger and more resilient lives.