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Making a plan B out of the scraps left from plan A.
means The knack for solving problems with whatever's on hand, rather than what you wish you had.
from Traces back to 'resource,' from French 'ressource,' built on 'resourdre' — to rise again, to spring up anew — itself rooted in Latin 'resurgere' (yes, the ancestor of 'resurrect'). So a resource was literally something that rises again to help you, a reserve that springs back up when you need it. Add '-ful' and '-ness' and you get the state of being well-stocked with these rising reserves — not in your pockets, but in your wits.
- not intelligence
- smart people freeze, resourceful people improvise
- core skill
- seeing a paperclip as fifty different tools
- origin word
- from resource, meaning to rise again
- survival trait
- predicts outcomes better than raw talent or money