How to cultivate resilience and get through tough times (with Lucy Hone) (re-release)

How to Be a Better Human

TED

Self-improvement, Education

4.2 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Life can throw curveballs that you feel wholly unprepared for-- just ask Dr. Lucy Hone, a resilience researcher, who tragically lost her 12-year-old daughter in a road accident. While all of us may experience tragedy in our lives, not everyone knows how to manage it. In this episode, Dr. Hone shares the strategies that got her through unimaginable adversity and—in doing so—helped her find meaning through loss. Co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, Hone's research is published internationally and her PhD was acknowledged for its outstanding contribution to wellbeing science at the World Congress of Positive Psychology in 2019. Her grief work now encompasses the best-selling book, Resilient Grieving, alongside other engaging online content.

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0:00.0	You're listening to How to Be a Better Human. I am your host, Chris Duffy, and this week we are still on our holiday break between seasons, but we will be back with new episodes in mid-January. So stay tuned. In the meantime, though, today we have an episode from our very first season. And this interview was recorded in the midst of pandemic lockdowns and
0:21.8	economic and political unrest. And in many ways, the issues that we were dealing with front and
0:28.2	center when this episode was recorded are still ongoing today. But I do just want to give you
0:32.9	the context so you know when this interview took place. And I also want to say that over the years of
0:37.9	hosting this show, this conversation with Lucy Hone, an expert on well-being and resilience,
0:43.8	this is the single episode that listeners have brought up to me the most. I know that what Lucy
0:49.2	has to say here has really spoken to people, and it's stuck with me too. Because Lucy's research and her work,
0:55.1	they're all about how do you get through tough times? How do you survive when it feels like your
1:00.5	world is falling apart? And those are questions that we're all going to have to face at some
1:04.7	point in our lives. There's some of the biggest challenges that come with being human.
1:09.5	In Lucy's talk, which was recorded at TEDx Christchurch, she shares her research on coping
1:14.7	with sorrow and tragedy, and also her own journey back to hope and strength and life after
1:20.2	the unthinkable happened to her.
1:22.3	Here's a clip.
1:23.4	I finished my studies in America, and I returned home here to Christchurch to start my doctoral research.
1:31.3	I just begun that study when the Christchurch earthquakes hit.
1:36.9	So I put my research on hold and I started working with my home community to help them through that terrible post-quake period.
1:47.0	I work with all sorts of organisations from government departments
1:51.0	to building companies and all sorts of community groups,
1:54.0	teaching them the ways of thinking and acting that we know boost resilience.
2:00.0	I thought that was my calling, my moment to put all of that research to good use.
2:08.6	But sadly, I was wrong.
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