Got Resilience?

Please see a piece by Texas lawyer Mark Bennett I’ve been brooding about ever since I saw it: “Resiliency“. But don’t obsess about it too much. Ironically, resilience–the ability to recover and spring back from adversity, a shock or a set-back in short order–is not a lawyer trait. Indeed, these days there’s lots of commentary out there which in the aggregate goes something like this: lawyers don’t market, work, argue, negotiate, or even do trial work as well as they could because they are “relational”, nice, academic at heart, a bit passive aggressive, naturally not “war-like” and–even when we are competitive and direct–we suffer, brood and worry too long about setbacks and defeats. And we are beginning to hate what we do all day long because, oddly, (1) neither fighting (2) nor “going with the flow” are in our natures. It’s true. We lawyers are, in the main, natural-born