Neuroscientist and resilience expert Jurie Rossouw explores how true resilience is less about “toughening up” and more about learning to advance despite adversity through deliberate self-care and skill-building. He frames influence as educating others so they can make better decisions, rather than inspiring or pressuring them with slogans. Jurie shares how his own struggles with depression as a teenager pushed him into decades of research that eventually led to the Predictive Six-Factor Resilience (PR6) model, built around six domains: vision, composure, reasoning, tenacity, collaboration, and health. He sees vision as the anchor that gives people a sense of purpose, while health quietly powers everything else by shaping how well the brain functions under pressure. Along the way, he reflects on population-level insights like Australia’s relatively low composure and strong health scores, how workplaces sometimes mistakenly expect resilience instead of supporting it, and his belief that resilience, properly understood, is a blueprint for sustainable self-care that everyone should have been taught at school.