Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.

In populations experiencing trauma across a wide variety of settings, the portion of those experiencing ongoing PTSD is remarkably similar – one third. Ecclesiastes says woe to him who falls alone, but that the cord of THREE strands is not easily broken. Apparently deep in our human wiring is the resilience to be a buttress for those feeling overcome.

The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.