Resiliency More Important Than Education

In Harvard Business Review a few years ago, a company called Adaptive Learning Systems did a comprehensive study of the qualities it takes to be successful in life. They looked at the expected things: education, motivation, connections, etc. But they concluded that resiliency deserved to be on top of the list."The ability to bounce back from disappointment and even disaster," Adaptive's CEO Dean Becker said, "counts more than education, more than experience, and more than training."