The Importance of Resilience in Life

Roxanne Jones: Resilience is more than just bouncing back from adversity. She says it's really about continuing to pursue your goals, even though you are heavily challenged. In the book she talks about how to use the brain's dopamine networks and a dopamine machinery that helps us keep pursuing our goals in the face of challenges.Jones: The key idea is for people to have an experience of reward associated with whatever they're trying to motivate.