“No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.”

The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it's going to be very, very hard.

“They've been resilient all year. We were written off, and (we) always come back.”

“This win means a lot. It means that these kids are resilient. They find different ways to win and they never give up.”

“If there is going to be a sector that should be naturally inclined towards online resilience, you would expect it to be the retail sector.”

Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.

The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.

“Under the state of willpower depletion, we are more likely to break habits that hold dependency on resiliency and discipline.”