Talking Resilience
Resilience is an ability to push on despite obstacles or failures. It is a quality tough to identify unless a person has faced hardships and failures. The real stars shine only when the going gets tough. That brings one back to the famous proverb ‘When the going gets tough the tough get going’, made famous in that beautiful song by Billy Ocean. The first phase in building resilience for soldiers is physical when you push beyond the comfort level of physical strength and endurance, it builds mental resilience as one pushes boundaries. Once you see physically tougher give up and the seemingly soft push on, you understand there is more to resilience than just muscles. Mental and emotional resilience is the final frontier. The ability to build Zen-like or Buddha-like ability to face the challenges modern world presents. Organizations and families or any social structure need people with resilience to tide over the tough times. The reading that got me to this ...