Resilience What is it?
For materials it means : - The ability of an object to spring back into shape - Being elastic Like a spring!
For people it means : -The ability to recover quickly from difficulties -Toughness
Who is this? J. K. Rowling -Was rejected 12 times from publishing agencies before someone ‘took a risk’ in developing her book
Who is this? Albert Einstein -He couldn’t speak until he was 4 years old -His teachers said he ‘wasn’t very clever’ and ‘would never amount to much’
Who is this? Walt Disney -He was told that he ‘had no imagination’ -A newspaper report said that he ‘lacked original ideas’
Who is this? Thomas Edison -Told by his teacher that he was ‘too stupid to learn anything’ -He should have a job that ‘doesn’t need a brain’
Who is this? Lionel Messi -When he was 11 years old he was cut from his school football team because he was ‘too small’ and ‘would never be very good’
Why is it important to be resilient? “You can’t fail if you don’t give up”
Wp6vFdE Derek Redmond
What can we learn from this amazing story?
Sometimes it will be Hard Frustrating Difficult Painful but – you must be resilient