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Resilience & Difficulties

Everyone has some things they find harder.

It may be that the things you find hard are skills we use a lot in

school, work and in life (like the Control Centre Skills). This means

you spend more of your time noticing your difficulties than your

strengths.

If someone finds art really difficult, they may only notice once a

week in an art lesson. If a person finds reading or remembering

information hard, they notice in almost every lesson. That is

tough!

▪ Keep a big focus on your strengths – EVERY DAY (go back and

read Page Ask someone you trust to explore the things you find

easy and the things you find harder (use our Strengths Cards to

help).

▪ Work out ways to support your difficulties so they aren’t such a

problem for you (the information for each of the Executive

Function Skills in this booklet may help you think of some

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strategies).