Growing up dirt poor,
my family didn’t have money
to magically make things possible
or to fix things.
We had to rely on ingenuity
and resourcefulness
and creativity
and, above all,
we had to learn to be resilient.
Resilience is the ability
to recover quickly from difficult situations
and it is a valuable skill,
especially for business builders.
“You’ll probably find that
while precision feels like
the way forward,
resilience,
the ability to thrive
when things go wrong,
is a much safer bet.
The trap?
Hoping for one,
the other or both
but not doing the work
to make it likely.
What will you do
when it doesn’t work?
Neither resilience
nor tolerances
get better on their own.”
Because resilience is a skill,
it can be learned,
worked on,
improved,
mastered.
If you come from a poor
or otherwise disadvantaged background,
you have a head start
on other business builders.
You survived
because you learned resilience.
And you learned resilience
from experience,
often the most vivid of teachers.
Consider honing your resilience.
Actively work toward
improving it.