2. What happens when things are tough or difficult to do or learn?

3. Do you sometimes feel like:
I can’t do it
This is pointless
I might as well give up

4. It is at this point that you may feel that you have failed……..
However, everyone has gone through this at some point, it is a part of learning.

5. This person was cut from the high school basketball
team. He went home, locked himself in his room and
cried …..
….his name is Michael Jordan

6. 2 Olympic Gold Medals
6 NBA Championship rings
5 NBA MVPs

7. Told by a music teacher "as a composer he is hopeless" – Beethoven
Fired from a newspaper because he "lacked imagination and had no original ideas“. Legend has it he was turned down 302 times before securing finance for Disney World. - Walt Disney

8. Twelve publishers rejected the manuscript for the first Harry Potter book– JK Rowling
Rejected from the University of Southern California School of Theater, Film and Television three times – Stephen Spielberg

9. Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985.
Jobs felt despair and rejection but funnelled his energy into new ventures (like Pixar) before returning to Apple in 1996.
He went on to change the digital world by inventing amongst other things the iPad and iPhone and saved the company.

10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWt mcBpai9k
Team Hoyt – father and son
Marathon runners and Iron Men

11. What helps you to be resilient in school?
Knowing what distracts you from learning and settling quickly after a disruption
Noticing the areas of your learning you are good at and using them
Not being put off by difficulties and finding ways to overcome them
Knowing what it is like to be engrossed in a task, not knowing that time is passing

12. How can you be resilient?
Stay Positive
Practise
Persist
Persevere
Stay involved
Don’t give up
Don’t be daunted by challenge
Take Control!

13. So don’t give up, keep trying, as this is the route to success.