Resilience, Confidence, and Positive Thinking Manga for Success

Strengthen your confidence, positivity, and resilience with Manga for Success!

Resilience, Confidence, and Positive Thinking: Manga for Success will show you how to change your perspective to improve your wellbeing. This manga tells the story of Reisa, who recently started a new job at an advertising agency. Overwhelmed and stressed by the new workload and criticism from her boss, her mental health starts to suffer. One day, Reisa runs into Tsuyoshi, an old college friend. Captivated by Tsuyoshi's strong self-esteem and confidence, she asks for his advice. To help Reina relieve her mental fatigue, break out of her negative mindset, and rebuild her confidence, Tsuyoshi suggests resilience tips he adopted abroad. Following his advice, Reina addresses the roots of her habitual negativity, begins to positively control her emotions, starts to turn around her relationships with her peers, and becomes the best version of herself.

• Understand the principles of positive psychology and resilience, including Bandura’s self-efficacy theory, and learn how they can easily be applied in your life
• Learn how to watch out for emotional vampires, build your self-empowerment, and control negative emotions
• Gain skills for overcoming negativity and disappointments, while building a strong mind and heart

Discover why manga for businesspeople is so wildly popular in Japan, China, Korea, and elsewhere. Resilience, Confidence, and Positive Thinking: Manga for Success is fun to read—and it could just change your life!

KOJI KUZE joined a foreign company after graduating from Keio University. While there, he studied resilience and became a certified resilience master trainer. After that, he established a school for working adults, and human resources and instructors on resilience. The corporate resilience training was featured in shows like NHK’s Today’s Close-up and Kansai Television’s Super News.

Preface ...... 11

Resilience Is…

Why Aren’t Things Going Well?! ...... 16

01. Why Resilience is Currently Necessary

• Stress Wears the Heart Out ...... 28

• Career Turning Points Are Dangers to the Heart ...... 30

02. What is Resilience?

• Resilience Is… ...... 32

• Three Traits of Someone With High Resilience ...... 33

Prologue

Contents

IT’S SO

GOOD!

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• Resilience is a Psychological Resource Everyone Has ...... 34

03. Strengthening Resilience

• Three Steps to Strengthen Resilience ...... 36

• Challenges Become Nourishment For Resilience ...... 38

• Resilience Becomes Stronger Through Practice ...... 41

Part 1

Controlling Negative Emotions

I See, So I Was Exhausted. ...... 44

01. How to Not be Swayed By Negative Emotions

• Stress Makes the Heart Weaker ...... 60

• Emotions Can Be Controlled ...... 61

• Do Not Seal Off Emotions ...... 62

02. Negative Is Stronger Than Positive

• The Rumination Phenomenon

of Emotions ...... 65

Story

1

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• The Positive Brain and the Negative Brain ...... 67

03. Emotions Are Hiding in the Shadows of Problematic

Behavior

• The Mechanism of Emotions and Behaviors ...... 70

04. Irritation and Anxiety Are Contagious

• Beware of the Emotional Vampire ...... 73

• Using Emotional Transmission Daily ...... 74

05. The Positive Role That Negative Emotions Have

• Learn How to Control Emotions ...... 76

06. The Three Methods In Controlling Emotions

• Control Your Breathing to Cool Your Mixed Up

Emotions ...... 79

• Add Labels to Your Emotions ...... 80

• Don’t Hold On to Your Stress Overnight ...... 83

Part 2

Taming Negative Assumptions

S t o r y How to Hang Out With an Assumption Dog ...... 88

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01. What Are Assumptions?

• People Have Tinted Glasses Inside Their Hearts ...... 106

• The Mechanisms of Assumptions And Emotions ...... 107

• In Order to Control Your Emotions ...... 109

02. Taming Assumptions

• The Seven Types of Negative Assumptions ...... 110

• The Righteous Dog (The Should Be Mindset) ...... 111

• The Loser Dog (The Devaluing Mindset) ...... 113

• The Worrywart Dog (The Pessimistic Mindset) ...... 115

• The Abandoning Dog (The Powerless Mindset) ...... 117

• The Apologetic Dog (The Self-Accusing Mindset) ...... 118

• The Criticism Dog (The Mindset of Blaming Others) ...... 120

• The Apathetic Dog (The Irresponsible Mindset) ...... 122

• In Order To Realize Your Assumptions ...... 124

03. Three Ways To Deal With Assumption Dogs

• Dealing With Negative Assumptions ...... 126

• Banish It ...... 126

• Accept It ...... 127

• Training/Taming ...... 127

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Part 3

Get Social Support

Is There Someone Who Can Help You? ...... 132

01. Why Are You Unable To Rely On Others?

• The External and Internal Reasons for Inability to Rely

On Others ...... 156

• The Three Features of Workplaces That are Not

Cooperative ...... 156

• Assumptions Can Hinder Relationships With

Others ...... 158

02. Get Social Support

• Building Quality Interpersonal Relationships ...... 160

• Find Five Supporters ...... 161

03. Creating an Organization With High Resilience

• What are the Requirements For a Good Workplace? ...... 164

04. Four Factors in Forming Quality Relationships

• Relationships With Cooperation ...... 166

• Relationships With Respect ...... 166

• Relationships With Trust ...... 168

• Relationships With

Playfulness ...... 169

Story

3

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Part 4

Restoring Your Self-Confidence

In Order to Work With Confidence ...... 172

01. Why Are You Unable to Feel Confident?

• Those Who Are Unable To Take A Step Forward Because

They Lack Self-Confidence ...... 186

• What Happens When You Are Unable to Have

Self-Confidence ...... 178

• The Reason You Lose Self-Confidence ...... 188

02. The Psychological Resources to Heighten Self-Confidence

• You Can Get Self-Confidence From Increasing

Self-Efficacy ...... 191

• What Is Self-Efficacy? ...... 191

Story

4

• Self-Efficacy and Resilience ...... 192

CAKECHAN,

TOO.

HOW ABOUT

THINKING

ABOUT WHAT

YOU REALLY

WANT TO

DO?

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03. Making a Foundation For Self-Confidence

~How To Raise Your Self-Efficacy~

• Four Factors in Raising Self-Efficacy ...... 194

• What You Need in Order to Tie Accomplishments

Into Self-Efficacy...... 195

• How to Handle Failure ...... 197

• Build Up Small Achievements ...... 198

• Examples Increase Confidence ...... 200

• Encouragement Becomes the Source of

Self-Confidence ...... 202

• Positive Attitudes Stimulate Self-Confidence ...... 203

• “Places” Where You Can Feel Positive ...... 204

• Self-Efficacy Can Help ...... 205

Part 5

Putting Your Strength Into Good

Use At Work

I’LL…

…DO IT!

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What Is My Strength? ...... 208

01. Putting Strength to Good Use And Raising Resilience

• What Is Strength? ...... 220

• Look for Strengths Rather Than Weak Points ...... 221

• Three Ways to Figure Out Your Strengths ...... 221

02. What Is a Rewarding Job?

• The Definition of Working With Resilience ...... 225

• Three Views on Work ...... 226

• Let’s Start With Putting Your Strength to Good Use ...... 228

Conclusion ...... 234

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