Emotional Resiliency.  This is an outstanding link to what is probably the most important aspect of resiliency: mindset.  I alluded to this in my previous post about the necessity of starting to garden now so that I can start to gain experience in how to pull it off successfully.  Waiting until I need to be able to utilize a skill is a good way to fail.  If you wait until you have to, you will be starting out behind the curve.  If you are going to sail to the Bahamas on your own catamaran, you need to learn how to swim before you are out in the middle of the ocean.  Same thing applies to prepping tools.  Jack Spirko mentioned on his interview today that he has encountered folks that have a winch on their truck that they have owned for 11 years but didn’t know how to use it, because they never have used it.  It was still wound the way it came from the factory.  If you take two people and drop them in a crisis situation, one with all the gadgets and gear but no practical experience using any of them, and another with practically nothing but a practical application knowledge of said tools and a mindset of improvisation, my money is on the guy with the right mindset every time.