# Develop academic resourcefulness

**Source**: https://www.york.ac.uk/students/support/success-at-york-toolkit/resourcefulness/academic/
**Parent**: https://www.york.ac.uk/students/support/success-at-york-toolkit/resourcefulness/

Academic resourcefulness involves understanding how to use what you have around you.

Consider how to get what you need in order to improve academically.

## Videos

Video

### [How failure cultivates resilience](https://www.ted.com/talks/raphael_rose_how_failure_cultivates_resilience)

Raphael Rose explains how failures and setbacks help you develop the emotional callouses needed to achieve great things in life.

Video

### [How to bounce back from failure](#uoy_modal_youtube_embed_978089_2)

Failing sucks, but it's not the end of the world. This video walks you through a process for bouncing back, and offers some motivation to help you get started.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK3U1EuJeuc>

## Podcasts

[Explore the topic: being free to fail](https://libguides.derby.ac.uk/c.php?g=693521&p=4973644)

In this podcast, a student talks to Dr David Robertshaw about how failure helps us grow, and should just been seen as part of the journey in education.

## Next steps

Now you have explored resources to help with developing a stronger sense of academic resourcefulness, the next step is to complete our activities to help you set some goals.

[Activities to develop resourcefulness](https://www.york.ac.uk/students/support/success-at-york-toolkit/resourcefulness/activities/)