Originally published: New York: Broadway Books, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Resilience is a crucial ingredient - perhaps the crucial ingredient - to a happy, healthy life. More than anything else, it's what determines how high we rise above what threatens to wear us down, from battling an illness, to bolstering a marriage, to carrying on after a national crisis. Everyone needs resilience, and now two expert psychologists share seven proven techniques for enhancing our capacity to weather even the cruellest setbacks. The science in 'The Resilience Factor' takes an extraordinary leap from the research introduced in the bestselling Learned Optimism a decade ago. Just as hundreds of thousands of people were transformed by 'flexible optimism,' readers of this book will flourish, thanks to their enhanced ability to overcome obstacles of any kind.