Perseverance and resilience are crucial to life. We're guaranteed that life is going to throw us a curve ball, knock us down, and take us out at some time or another.

Perseverance is the ability to keep going, keep finding a path through the storm, and resilience, the capacity to quickly recover from difficulties or change. Can you imagine how wonderful it would be to have a huge supply of these? We'd sail through life's challenges.

The problem is, we're not born with these. We only develop the muscle of perseverance and resilience as we journey through tough times, force ourselves to exercise perseverance and find a way through it, and as a result, build resilience which enables us to bounce back quicker next time.