The Most Important Personality Trait Everyone Needs To Develop

Posted on April 06, 2016 by Aaron Dutil, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.

On the internet you will find various psychological traits that are listed as critically important. Traits such as: creativity, competence, empathy, and so forth. All of those traits are desirable and important no doubt. There is one trait I feel that is even more important to success (in whatever way you define success) in life in general. That personality trait is psychological resilience.

Many definitions exist for psychological resilience but my favorite is the simplest: the ability to overcome adversity in life. In my view life is a succession of transitions. Some of these transitions are positive such as graduating school, getting married becoming a parent or your first professional job. Other transitions are not so positive: losing a job, divorce, death of a loved one. A few could even be considered both for many people, such as early retirement (doubt this one? Let me have you talk to my parents).

The point is that you need to have the ability to negotiate and sometimes weather these transitions. A resilient personality can do this for you. Recently, I wrote a book on how to cultivate this ability. It is a skill which can be learned like any other. I developed my own system to help people cultivate this skill. I used my own experiences (For instance, I went through a painful divorce), the experiences of hundreds of psychotherapy clients over the years, along with the latest clinical research to create and refine this resiliency building system.

If you find yourself struggling with a current transition or want to prepare yourself for your next life transition (what do they say about an ounce of prevention…) get in touch now. Together we will build a concise and cohesive plan to make you a more resilient person to overcome any adverse event or obstacle in your life.