Potential Psychology

We're back for Season 5 and we have some exiting news! The Potential Psychology Podcast is up for an award. I'll give you the low down in this episode.My guest for the first episode of this season is Associate Professor Brock Bastian from the University of Melbourne and we're asking the question, 'Are we getting resilience wrong?' Resilience is a hot topic right now, with programs designed to build resilience featuring on the training schedules of our schools and workplaces. But what do we really know about resilience from a scientific perspective? Can we build it? And how?In this episode Brock and I explore: •What we do and don't know about resilience from a scientific perspective •Why we often get resilience wrong •Why we need risk and vulnerability to develop our resilience - and our kids' resilience! •Resilience as a dynamic and developable process, and •How to build a challenge mindset.About my guestBrock Bastian is a researcher, a practitioner, and and the author of The Other Side of Happiness: Embracin