I started off this week not knowing much about personal resilience. I was familiar with the term but had never put much thought into what it really meant or how it affected my life. In preparation for our personal resilience class I took the quiz to determine my own resilience and I was surprised by my results. I took the quiz and came up with a low score and I was surprised because on the document where the class was posting their results I noticed most of the scores were very high. After observing this I decided to take the quiz again to see if I missed something that was affecting my score. The second time I ended up with almost the exact same score, 55%.
I was confused why I was low but didn't take the time to think about it. However, from the in class lesson I learned a lot about myself and why my score was low. I learned that the things that make up being resilient are things that I am in fact bad at. A big part of resilience is adapting and that is something that I am resistant to. I don't like change and I'm someone who likes to stay inside my comfort zone. That definitely affects my ability to be resilient. I can sometimes also be dramatic and that can affect my ability to be resilient as well. When I act dramatic it can make it harder to bounce back and not let things affect me since in my head I make them up to be a big deal. These are all things that I could work on in the future.
Learning about my personal resilience was very beneficial. I am now able to move on from this and make it a goal to work on resilience. I have attached a link below to the personal resilience test I mentioned.
https://testyourself.psychtests.com/testid/2121
Here's an exercise I would suggest: have one of your good friends take the test as if they were you. See what the results are - I suspect you are being too hard on yourself.
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