Self-Driven Resilience Tactics

Table of Contents

• Patience and Persistence
• Experimentation and Innovation
• Resourcefulness and Adaptability
• Mental Resilience
• Learning and Growth
• Creativity and Imagination
• Practical Skills and Techniques
• Courage and Determination
• Other

Patience and Persistence

Don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up, you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realise it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be along process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

When you have done your possible best and nothing seems to work, then walk in patience - the invisible key that unlocks possibilities.

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

You just put your head down and do the work.

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that’s the real secret.

Grasp a difficulty by the “blade” and it cuts; grasp it by the “handle” and you can use it constructively.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

It’s empowering to be asked to look at what’s possible, not told how to do it.

So that’s how you do it, I thought while exiting my little office. You get on with life by facing it.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

Experimentation and Innovation

The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

I really like to experiment. That’s the only way I can work. It’s instinctive.

I'm for experimentation. I'm for trying things. That's true whether we're talking about hardware or personnel issues. We need to try some things, because doing what we have always done because we've always done it that way doesn't work.

If you’re not prepared to perform the experiment yourself, at least think about the implications. Imagine that you’ve modified the way in which you’re computed – and imagine what the consequences would be. A gedanken experiment – is that too much to ask for? In a sense, that’s all I ever performed myself.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

I would love to figure out a way to be less careful and more adventurous.

I'm starting to feel like I can actually figure out how stuff works. I can actually pick stuff apart and have a chance of fixing it.

Basically, I'm a bit of a nerd and I've always wanted to solve a Rubik's Cube.

It's a vicarious thing. The difficult things I've done, I'm interested in figuring out how to do it.

I think doing a quint is very, very difficult.

What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.

If at first you don't succeed, tweak it before you toss it.

Resourcefulness and Adaptability

Attempting to succeed without embracing the tools immediately available for your success is no less absurd than trying to row a boat by drawing only your hands through the water or trying to unscrew a screw using nothing more than your fingernail.

I think you have to find how the machine can work for you. That's what I mean by "attaching yourself to the machine," 'cause the machine is going to be there, and you can rage against the machine, which is cool, but there's ways that you can benefit off the machine if you're savvy enough and you're sharp enough, smart enough. We all got to live and eat.

I’ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it

You have to find your own tricks!

You cannot attempt to suggest much less try to explain this to normal people inside the box and is why I always throw in the monkey wrench option of doing it the social way

Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all but to have instead the wit constantly to make one’s way anew from the materials at hand.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.

The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.

It's easy to be omniscient when you've done it all before.

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.

Mental Resilience

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity – that was how to get stuff done.

You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like it`s all you know how to do.

That takes a lot of energy. And just doing this part is taking everything I've got.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

It's really hard because you only have that split-second to determine what to do. It's crazy. I try my best to use clear judgment and make clear decisions, but a lot of those collisions are unavoidable. You're either going to let them catch it and take a step to see what's going on, or there's going to be a collision.

Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.

If you had the mental energy in the tank, you could create in an instant.

Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.

Once you’re stuck with something, all you can do is make the best of it.

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

Somehow don’t be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.

It's very difficult to think of new ways to blow things up!

Learning and Growth

The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. It's how you learn.

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.

Getting something and having the wits to use it are two different things.

Getting something and having the wits to use it… are two different things.

Grasp a difficulty by the “blade” and it cuts; grasp it by the “handle” and you can use it constructively.

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

I’ve always tried to do the smartest and best thing.

When you have done your possible best and nothing seems to work, then walk in patience - the invisible key that unlocks possibilities.

Don’t always wish it is easier to be done; wish you have enough power to make it happen. No matter how difficult it is, you can do it when the solution is in your palms!

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

Creativity and Imagination

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

My method can be nothing, or the most intense, bizarre preparations you've ever seen.

This stuff is so easy I can do it with my eyes closed.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

I am a human Rube Goldberg machine," he said. "I do simple things in complicated ways

If I can’t figure out how to live on my own一how to do things on my own一how am I supposed to live at all?

I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

I’m going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

Practical Skills and Techniques

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

You do that by becoming an enhancement to the boss.

If you broke down my technique, it wouldn't really take a rocket scientist to do so.

For me the trickiest thing is figuring out the spin and loft.

There's something so empowering about knowing I can pick up an axe and split a piece of wood.

Even I have a hard time manipulating escargot.

Anyone can learn a trick, but to make it entertaining, to put a presentation twist on it, and then to take it out there and really amaze people is a whole different ball game. You have to have some kind of a natural ability to do that, I suppose.

I am a quite unnecessarily complicated piece of mechanism.

Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose.

Surely anybody with a half a wit can figure out some other way to get what they?re after.

The last thing I want to do is force tries to happen.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

Courage and Determination

So that’s how you do it, I thought while exiting my little office. You get on with life by facing it.

Dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results.

Dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results

And manipulation appears to be an obvious way to do it.

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: ‘This is simply what I do.

Four months later, I was in a pool and I had no idea what I was doing. I had an idea, a dress, and a lot of determination, but I had no idea how to make it happen.

I am trying to improvise, for God sake (Secret: Tell everything which comes in your head).

The reality is we know exactly how to do that in mice and no idea how to do that in people.

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.

We did it in phases; we knew there was no way (to do it all at once).

I mean God knows I've done tons of schlock during the course of my career and stuff that's been very low budget and really pressed for time, but I've never had an experience like this. I kept saying to people, "How do you do this?" I said to Susan [Lucci], "How do you do it?" I don't recall exactly what she answered me but it was something like "Close my eyes and think of England. You just do it."

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn’t know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.

Other

When your intuition is right, thank the part of you that knows how to do that truly remarkable job.

As far as I could tell, the quickest way to a geeky guy's heart usually involved geometric shapes.

I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice.

You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we were trying to hire directors, and this guy was like, 'I see you behind a glass desk.' I don't. And he's like, 'Yeah, the glass desk.' I go, 'I don't really see me as a glass desk guy.'

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

The only process you’ve mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you’ve mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

What’s the simplest thing that could possibly work?

It's hard to simulate the things that I do.

Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.

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