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Resilience is not a static character trait, but a set of skills that is cultivated and developed over time.

Resilience doesn’t emerge out of comfort or ease.

Scientists view a "failed" experiment as data, not the end. What if we adopted this mindset for our pursuits?

"Failure Is Not an Option." –Apollo 13

"Failure Is Not an Option." –Apollo 13

Resilience has been a hot topic for years now—Brené Brown, Angela Duckworth, and Cheryl Sandberg, among others, have offered their perspectives on how to develop mindsets, behaviors, and systems to survive and even grow from our setbacks. The overarching message is that resilience is not a static character trait, but rather a set of skills that can be cultivated and developed over time. It’s important to note that in order to develop resilience, we must encounter difficulties in whatever form. Resilience doesn’t emerge out of comfort or ease. Fortunately or not, life is good at handing us struggles, both big and small. None of us is immune from the bumps of life, even if we try to inoculate ourselves.

Struggles, mistakes, failures, closed doors: It’s not the fact that we will encounter........

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