MRT Skills, Unit Ten: Real-Time Resilience

Real-Time Resilience

Real-Time Resilience:

B.L.U.F.

Common Mistakes Made Using RTR

• Challenge counterproductive thoughts as they occur.
• Use it to get back to the task at hand.
• Use it to prepare for an anticipated Activating Event.
• This is an internal skill.
• This is not a tool for insubordination.

• Pitfall Responses

-Dismissing the grain of truth

-Minimizing the situation

-Rationalizing or excusing one’s contribution to

a problem

• Weak Responses

• Real-Time Resilience helps to build Optimism.

• Real-Time Resilience involves proving your thoughts false with evidence, thinking optimistically, and putting the situation in perspective.

• Real-Time Resilience is the skill of fighting back against counterproductive thoughts as soon as they occur so you remain task-focused and motivated.

When would you use

Real-Time Resilience?

MRT Skills

• What are examples of situations in which RTR will be most helpful to you?

-You are new to combatives and you have some self-doubt. It’s your turn.

-You’ve just read an upsetting e-mail from home, and you have to get ready for First Formation.

-You’re about to go in front of the promotion board.

-You need to get to sleep.

-You have road rage.

Real-Time Advanced Level: Demonstration

Real-Time Resilience

Key Principles

Real-Time Resilience Applications

When will Real-Time Resilience be particularly helpful to you as a leader and as a family member?

When would you NOT want to use Real-Time Resilience?

What are the opportunities to reinforce the practice of Real-Time Resilience with Soldiers, Family members, and DA Civilians?

How would you choose between Real-Time Resilience and Mental Games when dealing with counterproductive thoughts in real time?

• Accuracy over speed: Focus on accuracy and passing the gut test, not speed.

• Practice: RTR takes ongoing practice.

• Learning curve: Pitfalls are common and part of the learning process.

• Do-over: When you hear a Pitfall, pause and generate a stronger response.

• Optimism: Optimism is a primary target of RTR.

• Write down three words that capture what you just saw.

Skill Building through

Sentence Starters

• Use evidence to prove the thought is false.

-That’s not (completely) true because….

• Generate a more optimistic way of seeing it.

-A more optimistic way of seeing this is...

• Put It In Perspective.

-The most likely implication is… and I can…

MRT Skills, Unit Ten:

Real-Time Resilience

SFC Cruz

Real-Time Advanced Level

Real-Time Resilience:

Check on Learning

What is the skill?

Real-Time Resilience (RTR) is an internal skill used to shut down counterproductive thinking, build motivation, and focus on the task at hand.

• Used when what you are saying to yourself is counterproductive
• Advanced level is accurate and fast.
• Advanced level uses:

Evidence

Optimism

Put It In Perspective

• Advanced level requires practice, practice, practice!

When do I use it?

Use RTR when your thoughts are distracting you from an immediate goal or task.

Questions?!?!?!

How do I use it?

Respond to your counterproductive thoughts in the heat of the moment by providing evidence against the thought, by generating a more optimistic way of seeing the thought, or by Putting the thought In Perspective. Watch out for common Pitfalls and weak responses.