Sunday, November 7, 2010

What is Resilience?

Resilience is:
- The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.

- The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity.

- Strength of character

- Flexibility

- "The set of skills and behaviors needed to be successful in the midst of a fast-paced and continuously changing society." (GlaxoSmithKline, 2007)

- "The courage to come back" (Unknown)

- "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Confucius.

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