The Huddle Wisdom Blog

Most parents and teachers i think would like to know that their kids could persevere through hardship if they so choose to. 

What sorts of hardships we want them to tackle is a little subjective. Which ones do we let slide?

Some kids are more than happy going through some hardship if it means playing Tekken for hours till they reach the boss at the end of the game right? Is that resilience? I suppose it could be described as that. 

We always have to consider things in context. 

We need to have some idea of the things we value in order to determine whether something is worth pursuing or not; worth persevering hardships in order to reach the ‘prize’. 

Why am I saying this? Well, I think if we can determine early on the things that really matter then we don’t have to waste our energy persevering with things that don’t matter. 

So resilience is not a character trait in my view. It’s...