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Islamic Golden Age Empiricism (Al-Biruni) synthesized with Stress-Inoculation Physiology (Richard Dienstbier)Al-Biruni (Kitāb al-Qānūn al-Masʿūdī, c. 1030 CE) synthesized with Richard Dienstbier (toughness model, Psychological Review, 1991)

Roman military engineers had a concept called *pontem fecerunt* — 'they built the bridge' — used in dispatches not to describe heroism but to record the unglamorous act of...

What is the connective tissue you are currently not building — the bridge that would make next quarter's hardest moment...

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