With all the stresses and challenges of life today, resilience is essential.  Dig into the meaning of “resilience” as a habit of mind for actively coping. Learn the warning signs of weakening resilience. And learn multiple strategies for building and maintaining resilience. And for adapting to life’s many demands and expectations. Thinking style matters. Learn how it impacts maturity of judgement. And how to use your critical thinking to take steps to build resilience.

Using reflective thinking exercises, realistic examples, and questions with debriefs, this Mindset Booster builds your resilience and decision-making confidence. You come to better understand what resilience is. And you will learn social and introspective strategies for adapting when stressors limit your choices. And you will learn more than a dozen decision strategies for making effective judgments in emergency and non-emergency situations.

When you complete this Mindset Booster, you will see on screen your scores for: Personal Feedback – Overall. And scores for three specifics: Resilience Boost, Adaptability Boost, and Maturity of Judgment Boost. You will be able to download a PDF of the feedback. It will include a summary of key ideas, along with your scores in each area.

Mindset Boosters are interactive personal development tools. Reflection on your own thinking process is the key to building positive critical thinking habits of mind. Use the questions, debriefs, insights, exercises, thought experiments, and explanations to strengthen your critical thinking mindset, and become a more reliable, reflective, decision-maker. This is a critical thinking educational self-development tool. It is not intended to substitute for professional counseling for those in need of mental health care.