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While the parent post isn't phrased very helpfully, it raises a valid issue: beyond outcomes and people's retrospective explanations of those outcomes (which are, generally speaking, notoriously unreliable bases for forming useful theory), what are we actually talking about when we talk about "resilience"? What occurs differently such that one person develops this pattern and another doesn't? This essay sort of stumbles around these question, but ultimately falls back on describing resilience in terms that are more mythic than scientific. Admonishments like "own the fighter within" are what I expect from oily self-help hucksters, not credentialed psychologists writing in major publications.