

But it’s not just about learning how to bounce back, it’s also how we can achieve long-lasting positive change. It influences how easily we rebound from a given circumstance. The bounce factor is that measure of innate resilience in each of us.

These four components are dynamic and interrelated, and give us a measurement of their ‘bounce factor’. An individual’s upbringing or their current environment, could affect how they reacted to a setback as much as their emotional capacity and their self-awareness. Put another way, resilience is a measure of how much energy something can absorb without deforming and losing its fundamental shape.ĭoes everyone have the capacity to bounce back?Įach person’s resilience, like their identity, is multidimensional. Resilience comes from the Latin word resilire, which means ‘to jump back,’ and in its most scientific sense, it refers to the capacity to recover from physical stress or strain – think of a rubber band that snaps back into place after stretching.
