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— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Adversity Quotient, Turning Obstacles into Opportunities by Paul G. Stoltz
In the book
The strongest families and systems are built exactly this way — to become more resilient and more agile with each shock they meet and overcome, rather than more brittle. Researchers even have a name for the trait that predicts who rises and who is crushed — your adversity quotient — and it forecasts, better than talent or intelligence, who will overcome and who will fold — and without enough of it, you are liable to choose a dangerous fork in the road when the hard moment comes. Close behind it is adaptability. It is not the strongest of a species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most able to adapt to change — so when you are knocked flat and stuck, learn to shift into neutral, regroup, and find the right next step rather than grinding the same gear, and train yourself to look for Both-And solutions instead of forcing every choice into either-or. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)