Coping with long-term crises
Jim Stockdale spent seven years in a Vietnamese prison camp and survived. His secret? Quoting the article “The Stockdale Paradox” by Jim Collins: I asked him who didn’t make it out of those systemic circumstances as well as he had. […] He said, “The optimists. […] They were the ones who always said, ‘We’re going to be out by Christmas.’ Christmas would come and it would go. And there would be…