Resilience - Education, Personality Development

She Shall Overcome

Article from The Indian Express

Animator Charu Khandal fights for life in a Mumbai hospital even as friends emphasise her resilience

IT takes immense strength and willpower to be bedridden with such near-fatal injuries and yet laugh and reassure your loved ones that you will soon be back on your two feet.” These are the moving words that a close friend uses to describe Charu Khandal, now better known as the animator of Ra.One, who sustained severe injuries in the wee hours on Sunday in an accident when a car rammed into the auto-rickshaw she was travelling in. “Charu has a strong will to live and that is what will help her survive,” said a friend, referring to her brief conversation with Khandal when she was out of coma for a while on Monday.

A Jaipur girl, Khandal is the eldest of four siblings and one with creative leanings in a family of academics. In 2007, she moved to Delhi where she studied animation at the Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics. Following a good performance at the academy, she was transferred to its Mumbai office in 2009. Her stint with Shah Rukh Khan’s production house, Red Chillies Entertainment, began with Ra.One where she was hired as part of the film’s VFX team. Highly adventurous and curious, she would take off for trips to the outskirts of Mumbai almost every weekend. “We are both from Jaipur but it is in Mumbai that we met and bonded,” reminisces Nikhil Kashyap, a publicist friend who knows her for three years. What breaks his heart, he says, is that the 28-year-old may never be able to walk again.

Her fiance, Sagar Thacker, whom she met two years ago, confirms that they were planning to get engaged soon and the wedding was planned by this year-end. Too disturbed to talk further, he said he is by her side, hoping for her speedy recovery. Khandal’s treatment is on but the medical expenses remain a big concern for the family, added a friend. While some senior officials from Red Chillies have visited her in the hospital, the company, as part of their policy, has asked the employees to refrain from speaking to the media.

Article from the Indian Express

Sidney Dekker on Resilience

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Living a Good Life

Various Professors

How to Live Given the Certainty of Death

By Shelly Kagan - Yale

Lecture Description

In this lecture, Professor Kagan invites students to pose the question of how one should live life knowing that it will certainly end in death. He also explores the issue of how we should set our goals and how we should go about achieving them, bearing in mind the time constraints. Other questions raised are how this ultimately affects the quality of our work and our accomplishments, as well as how we decide what is worth doing in life.

A Person in the World of People: Morality

By Paul Bloom - Yale

Lecture Description

Professor Bloom provides an introduction to psychological theories of morality. Students will learn how research in psychology has helped answer some of the most central questions about human morality. For instance, which emotions are "moral" and why did these moral feelings evolve? What factors guide our moral judgments? And what factors predict when good people will do bad things?

The Good Life: Happiness

By Paul Bloom - Yale

Lecture Description

The last lecture in the course wraps up the discussion of clinical psychology with a discussion of treatment efficacy. Does therapy actually work? Professor Bloom summarizes the different types of influences that clinical interventions might have on people who receive therapy. Professor Bloom ends with a review of one of the most interesting research topics in "positive psychology," happiness. What makes us happy? How does happiness vary across person and culture? What is happiness for? Students will hear how the most recent research in psychology attempts to answer these questions and learn how people are surprisingly bad at predicting what will make them happiest.

How Do You Build Resilience?

Published on Apr 11, 2012

Psych Central.com's Ask the Therapists Daniel J. Tomasulo, Ph.D. & Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. talk about how you can build more resilience in your life. Why would you want to? People with higher resilience can better withstand stress and cope with life's challenges.