Overcoming challenges In personal and professional life:

Finding Strength in Happiness

Tanusree Dutta, Associate Professor,

IIM Ranchi
Myths of challenge

• Challenges create stress

• No new learning in comfort zone
• Only I am facing challenges
• Everybody faces challenges
• Challenges effect performance adversely
• Challenges help hone your skills
• Fall in love with the solution
• Fall in love with the problem
• Visualizing success helps a dream become a
reality
• Instant success affects motivation
 Suggestions…
• You overcome the challenge or let the challenge
overcome you
• Focus on what you can do Vs focus on what you
cannot do
• Count your blessings rather than your sufferings
• Change comparison group
• Every challenge is not to win
 Happiness as a strength…..

Antidote to depression…..
 Positive mindset

• Helps discover unique strengths for greater

goals
• Experiment with new things
• Strengthen relations with others
• Live up to your expectations
• Create happy memories
• Continue to grow
 Final thoughts

• Overcome the challenge …… Live your dreams

• Failure has learnings ….. Success has

appreciation

• Choose to be happy…… happiness is a choice

Wish you a meaningful journey ahead

Thank you