Resilience is a crucial ingredient–perhaps <i>the</i> 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 cruelest setbacks. <br /><br />The science in <i>The Resilience Factor</i> takes an extraordinary leap from the research introduced in the bestselling <i>Learned Optimism </i>a decade ago. Just as hundreds of thousands of people were transformed by