My Experience Of Resilience

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Everybody has different experiences, the culmination of all the experiences become a personality; Makes us who we are. Trying to single out a quality that I have gained from all my experiences is a pretty daunting task but I would have to say the most prominent one would be resilience.

One could say that it is a rather common quality amongst adults. Resilience can be built up from working hard for your examinations, the late nights where we burn the midnight oil and sacrificing whatever comforts we have to achieve a goal. My experience? Well it came from my co-curricular activity which would be scouts. There were many times where my resilience was tested, it was especially so during the times where there were training camps. There was one

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