Oetting: 8VC companies Resilience and Saronic will manufacture exclusively in US
“We're not going to build our, you know, our fill finish facility in any other country at Resilience. We are 100%, we're more than 100% all in, in that facility, right? Cerronek's not going to go build ports in, you know, some random tax haven place just becaus…”
Oetting: 'Build It And They Will Come' Is Bad Hardtech Strategy
“Well, like with resilience, one thing we learned, which is going to sound very obvious, but you know, early on, we took a little bit of like, if we build it, they'll come strategy. That's a bad idea. It's much better to buy or invest in a facility alongside a …”
Kwan: Resilience Is Primarily Innate, Though Strengthened by Adversity
“I think you either have it or you don't. Can you learn to become more resilient? Sure. Through experiences and adversity. And things like that.”
Poumpouras: Complete healing does not exist and is unnecessary for resilience
“There's no such thing as being fully healed. You recover, and you become resilient, and you bounce back.”
Fraser: Resilience can only be learned through direct adversity
“A lot of people talk about building a resilient mindset or building a stronger mindset. And I really think that sure, maybe there's some benefit to trying to teach that or learn it, but I really think it's something that you can really only learn by going thro…”
Valiante: Resilience and Delayed Gratification Outweigh Raw Intelligence for Long-Term Success
“And when you put it as a variable and psychological model, it tends to wash out you know, things like, you know, ability or intelligence. Like it's more important in the course of the life cycle. Right up there with delayed gratification, which is another very…”
Colonna: Equanimity, Not Just Resilience, Is the True Psychological Goal
“I often talk about equanimity and equanimity as the real goal that resilience is the path. Being able to be resilient, Against the forces is a wonderful adulting skill. But what we're really after is the equanimity that says, I may have made a mistake, and I r…”
Rushkoff: Building resilience and metabolizing novel experiences beats insulating against unpredictability
“The world is scary and wet and dark and female and unknown and unpredictable and all that, but you don't want to compensate for that with more with predictability and insulation. What you want to do is Is enhance your resilience, and your wonder, and your abil…”
Pasricha: Build resilience by intentionally rigging games so you can win
“So in this global community, it's important to develop resilience by giving ourselves games that we can win.
Sign up for the marathon in the lowest, slowest category, tee off from the tees closest to the pin, rig the game so you can finally win something, and …”
Resilient and successful people create measurable short-term goals
“The short version of it is that the people that I think are incredibly successful are people who create a short term goal that they can measure and see progress on.”
Hoffman attributes his adult resilience to childhood instability
“Like, you know, one of the traits that I think defines me more as an adult is being very capable as a firefighter, and I think that resilience comes from the instability and uncertainty in childhood.”
Adam Grant: Relying on Kids for Advice Builds Their Resilience
“Relying on kids is also a way to build their resilience because it shows them that, you know, that, that they're not helpless that they, you know, they have the strength to do things for others.”