Triathlon Basic Training

We have heard about resilience and we know that children are resilient until certain age.  I would say until they have a consciousness.  I have had patients who lost one parent when they were adolescents and called me more than three years after the death of the parent to let know that they were grieving. Working on resilience is working on basic training for triathlon:

 re·sil·ient

  (rĭ-zĭl′yənt)

adj.

1. Capable of returning to an original shape or position, as after having been compressed. See Synonyms at flexible.

2. Able to recover readily, as from misfortune.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/resilient

There is a book written by somebody who has worked on resilience.  I listened to an interview with the author and it prompt me to write this post.  He is somebody who knows how to teach resilience because he worked very hard to acquire it and achieved it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VV5_MhD030

Resilience and consciousness oppose each other if we are unable to have goals.  Some children experienced the death of a parent; years later, until they have a consciousness, they experienced the loss.  They were just postponing the catastrophe: “Ignorance is bliss.”  The point is to be resilient without ignorance, for what a purpose in life is needed.  To be a champion in triathlon, the athlete should be resilient without ignorance.

Resilience is built day by day and is practiced for life.  The more conscious we are about the world and our limits, the harder we have to work on resilience.  In this sense “ignorance is bliss.”  It is the building block of a champion, it is just basic training for anybody.

Gennadi Touretski told me that the “best athletes” in Russia came from Siberia, he mentioned that he had a group of 800 athletes chosen by the system in the 70’s-80’s, including cyclist Ekimov and Alexander Popov.  They were good for any sport (Ekimov was a swimmer).  He worked with them starting at the age of eight.  Resilience was already present in most of siberian athletes because they used to dig holes in the winter to come out of their homes.  Resilience is the most important ingredient of “talent,” that is why Touretski believes that talent is “discovered” after 10,000 hours in the water.