Depicted as picking yourself up by your bootstraps, taking life's worst punches like a champ and trudging along despite setbacks, resilience is a trait we celebrate, and we always want more of it. The root of the word means to rebound or recoil. It's been used to describe the front line health care workers and people who've lived through a painful diagnosis.
But who has it, and how do you get more of it? Turns out, it’s not about each of us individually. A number of researchers in the field of resilience tell me we are thinking of the word all wrong.
