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Old Jan 18, 2015, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by ManOfConstantSorrow View Post
Perhaps my understanding of resilience needs more work. I am thinking of it as the ability to bounce back from adversity and typically involves perceptiveness, attention, perseverance. The ability to survive circumstances.

My feeling is that although resourcefulness comes into the bounce-back ability, it is also another trait in its own right and involves: questioning, imagining and using whatever resources come to hand. The ability to adapt circumstances perhaps?
Ahhh, okay. Would you say that resilience is sort of like an attitude? So a resilient person can more easily shake off or accept bad things happening while a resourceful person would use the tools at hand to make the situation better?