08/22/2026
Imagine standing at the edge of a cornice.
Straight drop. Two granite rocks below. A narrow path of white between them.
Your mind says one thing: slide back.
At a 35K Genius Network meeting, Dr. Tom Powell said that moment is where resiliency actually lives. It gets built by pushing past what your mind says you can't do, on purpose, over and over, until it becomes a choice you know how to make.
In this clip he takes it a step further. Resiliency is learned in the moments when you know you can stop and you don't stop. Quitting is right there, available, completely reasonable, and you keep going anyway.
If you're building anything meaningful, you already know resistance. You've pushed through deals that fell apart. You've made payroll when it wasn't obvious how. You've kept going when quitting would have been easier to explain.
Tom asks a different question. Are you building resiliency deliberately, or hoping it shows up when you need it?
His answer is that the more you put yourself in those positions, the more the goals you're working toward come into vision and become achievable.
Comment YOUTUBE to watch the full talk.
