Many of us assume or were taught that getting goods and a lot of education are the most important factors in being successful. But, no there is actually something that is way more important to achieving success than intelligence or years of education and that is, resilience. Resilience is basically not giving up. More abstractly, it is about learning from your mistakes. It is also about not falling apart when you fail, but being able to learn when things don’t go the way you expected.