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physical fitness. A key component part of this program is resilience training, building mental toughness, enabling soldiers to deal effectively with the traumas of war, and interestingly to enable soldiers to move away from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) to PTG (Post Traumatic Growth).
Seligman has found that three factors were important in dealing with setbacks and being resilient.
1. Seeing the event as temporary 2. Seeing the event as local 3. Seeing the event as changeable
generates a feeling and a set of subsequent behaviours and actions which is then played out as the traders performance. The activating event can be the same for many different traders and yet the outcomes, how they perform could all be vastly different based on their mindset. It is therefore not the events that happen to us that actually determines our results but rather our mindset that dictates how we respond.
DEVELOPING TRADER TOUGHNESS: LESSONS FROM COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND THE US MILITARY
Thirty years of research suggests that resilience can be measured and taught
and the US army is
currently testing this with its ‘Comprehensive Soldier Fitness’ program, developed by prominent psychologist Martin Seligman, which aims to build a soldiers psychological fitness as well as their
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(It’s going away quickly; it’s just this one situation; and I can do something about it)
How you interpret the events that occur to you is a critical factor in your experience of them, reaction to them and performance after
them. The meaning
US Army “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness’ program
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