I'm curious, why is it important for people to be resilient?

If you want well-being, which is what I think we generally want, we want to feel happy,

we want to be at peace inside ourselves, we want to feel that we're in balance with life.

To have that kind of well-being in any kind of lasting way,

in a changing world, you need to be resilient.

Resilience means that you can bounce back from really horrible things, but more generally and probably, frankly,

more usefully, you can keep on going toward your goals even when you're challenged.

So, resilience is not just for surviving the worst day of your life.

You know, we need it for thriving every day of the life. Hi, I'm Cody Gough with The Resilient Curiosity.com.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today we're going to learn how to become more resilient and why it matters.

Every week we explore what we don't know because curiosity makes you smarter.

This is the Curiosity Podcast.

The world is constantly changing and you can't really control that, but you can control how you respond to it.

Today's guest argues that the key to well-being and conquering challenges is to develop resilience and he can back it up with science.

Dr Rick Hansen is a senior fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley

and author of the new book Resilient, how to grow an unshakable core of calm, strength, and happiness.

He says that being resilient isn't just important for getting through bad situations.

It comes in handy no matter what life throws at you.

And you're about to learn how it can help you feel less stressed, face

challenges with confidence, and improve your overall state of well-being.

Do you really think it's that fundamental to our well-being, the resilience, because there's so many different components of the mind

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