Skills Guide
Teaching: Resilience Under Setbacks
Resilience Under Setbacks
Why This Skill Matters
Resilience under setbacks allows students to recover from failure, disappointment, or adversity without giving up. Many students interpret setbacks as proof they are incapable. Teaching resilience under setbacks helps students view challenges as temporary and manageable rather than defining.
Student Challenges This Skill Helps Address
- Giving up after failure
- Avoidance of challenge
- Discouragement and disengagement
How WhyTry Builds This Skill
WhyTry builds resilience under setbacks through Motivation & Resilient Mindset, where students learn to use challenges as fuel for growth. Problem Solving reinforces this by teaching students how to adjust strategies after setbacks. Facilitators guide reflection that helps students bounce back with greater confidence and persistence.
Motivation & Resilient Mindset
(“Motivation Formula”)
In Motivation & Resilient Mindset, students learn to respond to setbacks without giving up. Facilitators guide students to reframe discouragement and maintain effort. Processing emphasizes that resilience is not avoiding setbacks, but learning how to move through them.
Problem Solving
(“Jumping Hurdles”)
Problem Solving reinforces resilience under setbacks by teaching students to adjust strategies after failure. Facilitators guide reflection on learning from mistakes and applying lessons forward. This processing strengthens students’ ability to recover and persist.