No matter how large your bank account or how well-stocked your homestead, no one can be completely prepared for every potential eventuality. And nothing ever goes 100% according to plan. In the times where it doesn't, it's our emotional fortitude that determines how well we fare.
As we often observe: it's not the specific insult that determines our fate. It's our reaction to it.
So how does one go about cultivating a higher degree of emotional resilience?