Resilience (personality traits)

Introduction
As life is never easy or predictable; hard times are inevitable. You need resilience to handle these hard times

Personality traits of resilient people (8)

i) keep expectations realistic (resilience means more than acting like nothing's wrong and remaining cheerful, no matter what happens)
One needs to acknowledge the severity of their situation, yet at the same time avoid catastrophising by staying calm)

ii) use humour (humour can help you handle stress and improve mental health, ie able to laugh at yourself and your struggles
"...Humour is one of the things that help people cope with stressful and undesirable circumstances......don't take humour to mean that one isn't taking their troubles seriously. ..."
Lachlan Brown, 2023)

iii) use whatever is available (resourcefulness and resilience go together, ie make do with whatever is available)

iv) willing to use other's expertise and inputs (we all need support and reassurance to keep going, especially challenging times
"...they're not shy to ask for help, and they're willing to extend their help when needed..."
Lachlan Brown, 2023)

v) have a growth-oriented mindset (focus on making the most out of every situation
"...instead of seeing their struggles as a defeat, they see them as building stones for future success..."
Lachlan Brown, 2023)

vi) move on from mistakes (no point in labouring on past mistakes; better to learn from it and then focus on current and future circumstances)

vii) understand the experience of hard times (owing to their experience, resilient people have learnt the best ways to handle themselves and their problems, ie know which coping tactics work best for them)

viii) their lives have purpose and meaning (having something to live for can help greatly enduring challenging times; also,
"...truly resilient people try to find joy in as many small things as they can..."
Lachlan Brown, 2023)

Summary
"...Resilience is not a single trade in itself that you can learn, and it even has many different forms, such as emotional, physical, and stress resilience. They are all things you could build up in yourself, and the role of humility, confidence, in a personal connections, and using personal coping techniques to build up one's  resilience cannot be underestimated..."
Lachlan Brown, 2023
Resilience is needed to handle the VUCA world.