Resilience: the one word progressives need in the face of Trump, Covid and more | Robert Reich

The climate crisis, the economy, Biden's struggle to enact his spending agenda. The list goes on. The lesson? Be strongI often tell my students that if they strive to achieve full and meaningful lives, they should expect failures and disappointments. We learn to walk by falling down again and again. We learn to ride a bicycle by crashing into things. We learn to make good friends by being disappointed in friendship. Failure and disappointment are prerequisites to growth.The real test of character comes after failures and disappointments. It is resilience: how easily you take failures, what you learn from them, how you bounce back. Continue reading...