Resilience is not a trait that people either have or do not have. It involves behaviours, thoughts, and actions that can be learned and developed by anyone.

Mental resilience, the ability to adapt to life's challenges, is not a special trait that people either have or don't have. Rather, it involves the learning of behaviours, thoughts, and actions that can be developed in everyone.

There are many ways to improve your optimism, but one of the best methods is the ABC technique which looks at cognitive distortions (wrong ways of viewing things).

Optimism is an outlook that we can cultivate. A good place to start is challenging our automatic negative thoughts. The other thing we can do is mental exercises.