The hope that had made the deprivations of the war bearable, explained the journalist Sebastian Haffner (who experienced the events in Berlin at first hand), was the constant reassurance that Germany was about to win. The shocking revelation that Germany had lost was scarcely understandable. Haffner, who was eleven on the day the Armistice took effect, entered a deep depression. “Where could one find stability and security, faith and confidence, if world events could be so deceptive? If triumph upon triumph led to ultimate disaster, and the true rules of history were revealed only retrospectively in a shattering outcome? I stared into the abyss.” He wasn’t the only one. Adolf Hitler recounted a similar bewilderment at the news, but a more dramatic outcome, as he buried his “burning head in the sheets and pillows."
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Wong (2020) operationally defined the resilient mindset in terms of six attributes;
•Be tough mentally in order to face a competitive and difficult world (Scarfe & Baxter, n.d.) We need control, commitment, challenge, and confidence to face adversity (Gucciardi, 2020).
•Be responsible for adapting to each difficult situation with ethics and flexibility (Arslan & Wong, 2022).
•Appreciate what you still have in spite of the losses. Appreciate the gift of being alive and the goodness in the world (Jans-Beken & Wong, 2019).
•Practice mindfulness by accepting life at it is and embracing life with openness without judgement in order to have the clarity of mind to do the right thing (Moore, 2022).•Practice the meaning mindset (Wong, 2012) by looking for what is beautiful, good, and meaningful even in difficult situations.
•Believein a better future through faith, hope, and love (Wong, 2023a. 2023b). According to Hanson (2020), a resilient mind is defined as "constructing a conscious, deliberate alignment of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual resources to effectively engage with a specific situation."
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Do you want to be my slave?"
"There is no equality in love," I replied solemnly.
"Whenever it is a matter of choice for me of ruling or being ruled, it seems much more satisfactory to me to be the slave of a beautiful woman. But where shall I find the woman who knows how to rule, calmly, full of self-confidence, even harshly, and not seek to gain her power by means of petty nagging?"
"Oh, that might not be so difficult." "You think—" "I—for instance—" she laughed and leaned far back —"I have a real talent for despotism—I also have the neces-sary furs—but last night you were really seriously afraid of me!"
"He led with the same kind of confidence he exuded—a quiet dominance mixed with natural grace."
''Some kind of a blend of menace and confidence. Some arrogance in there, maybe. A suggestion they normally got their own way. But they were far from home.''
"However difficult of attainment this end is, generally not till toward the end of one's life, it must inevitably be sought, because it finally guarantees the certitudo salutis and substitutes a serene confidence for the sullen worry of the Calvinist"
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"The place of the self-confidence which the elect sought to attain, and continually to renew in restless and successful work at his calling. was taken by an attitude of humility and abnegation"
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Men have no confidence in whispers.
