Resilience Is Recovery Speed, Not Emotional Numbness

People assume resilient people don't get knocked down. They do — they just get up faster. Resilience isn't the absence of a hard reaction, it's the shortening of it, the gap between the blow landing and you finding your feet again.

So don't measure your strength by how little a setback affects you. Measure it by how long it takes you to recover, and work on shrinking that number instead of pretending the number is zero.