Tenacity Training: Why Embracing Life’s Challenges Fuels Your Growth

Are you avoiding doing something you know is important?

Well, here are a whole load more incentives to do it!

Taking on your challenges and pushing against resistance, exercises and grows your Anterior Midcingulate Cortex, which is the part of the brain responsible for will power and tenacity.

This brings the following benefits:

- Increases adaptive thinking capacity, thereby increasing your ability to handle shifting conditions/change

- Increases resilience, thereby increasing your ability to handle adversity

- Increases tenacity, thereby increasing your persistence in the face of challenges and the likelihood of achieving your goals

- Increases tolerance, thereby increasing your ability to handle difficult relationships and emotional states

THERE IS MORE – The Anterior Midcingulate Cortex can shrink as we age and stop challenging ourselves, but remains thick in people that age well. So, exercising your willpower can help prevent cognitive decline.

This affects our ability to transcend the difficulties we all face between us and act courageously. A lesson for high-performing teams, but perhaps also an important lesson for humanity to conquer its greatest challenges?

So many more reasons to do the things you are avoiding!! Perhaps:

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