[ManOfConstantSorrow]

Resilience is a personality character (I think) and people have it to a greater lesser degree, lesser in my case

Resourcefulness as I understand it is the capacity to find resources and bring them to bear on problems - I think I am quite good at this.

I like the idea of resourcefulness because it offers a way of being self-reliant even if your resilience is not what one might wish.

I wonder if anyone else has found this?

[hvert]

That's an interesting way to put it! For me, resourcefulness is maybe part of resilience. When confronted with a problem or something unexpected, bringing in other resources to help deal with that issue seems like it is demonstrating resilience?

I find that sometimes I am more resilient than others- and those times when I am *not* resilient are the times when I am more apt to lie around waiting for something to happen rather than use the resources at hand to deal with things.

[ManOfConstantSorrow]

Originally Posted by hvert

That's an interesting way to put it! For me, resourcefulness is maybe part of resilience. When confronted with a problem or something unexpected, bringing in other resources to help deal with that issue seems like it is demonstrating resilience?

I find that sometimes I am more resilient than others- and those times when I am *not* resilient are the times when I am more apt to lie around waiting for something to happen rather than use the resources at hand to deal with things.

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?

[hvert]

Originally Posted by ManOfConstantSorrow

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?

[gayleggg]

[quote] Originally Posted by ManOfConstantSorrow
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?[quote]

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?

This sounds right to me. I don't shake thing off at all but I'm very resourceful. It takes me a while to bounce back and usually takes some effort on my part.

I tend to think that this was the I was born. I don't remember being any different. Except, I think I have gotten better at being resourceful.

[ManOfConstantSorrow]

Originally Posted by hvert

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?

Pretty much - thanks for clarifying.

[Fuzzybear]

[H3rmit]

Resilience is definitely about bouncing back or recovering. It's a key concept in ecology. A forest can go through an extremely destructive disturbance, a large fire, and then over decades it recovers. Of course, it may lose its resilience in the face of some human disturbance that is not part of a cyclical pattern.

With people, some people can let emotional disturbances flow by and they pick themselves up and keep going. Others want to crawl into bed and give up. Maybe some of this is resistance, too, rather than resilience. Things just don't make a dent on some people, and they keep on rolling without even experiencing a disturbance. As I've gotten better with emotions, I'm glad to say I am not only more resilient in the face of extreme things, but more resistant to being disturbed by little things. Another ecological concept.