Episode 047: How to Develop Thick Skin and Mental Toughness

Rough Hands Working Clay

5 Ways to Develop Resilience for Tough Talks and Other Tough Things

One of my observations of our current society is that we have lost the sense of thick skin that I feel we used to have. There is such a heightened sense of political correctness and hypersensitivity, that we have created “safe spaces” and have new labels like “micro-aggression” to insulate us from what someone would have called “direct communication” just 5 or 10 years ago.