What's Your Adversity Quotient (AQ) & How Can it Help You Handle Life's Challenges?

Great leaders are known for their great qualities - such as an indomitable will, accountability, patience, and the ability to adapt and even thrive in any environment they find themselves in.
But as any adult knows, leadership roles don't only apply to politics, nor do they end in the corporate world. Leaders (and their leadership qualities) are helpful in all walks of life - from the big to the small, serious to frivolous.
Hence, these qualities can be honed and developed by everyone and anyone.
Sadly, families, schools, and society at large seldom teach people how to be leaders.
A lot of people grow up being told what to do all their lives, and they suddenly shiver and break when they face real-life problems and adversities because no one is telling them what to do anymore.
The problem is, while families, schools, and society at large might be great at helping people develop their Intelligence Quotient (IQ), Social Quotient (SQ), as well as Emotional Quotient (EQ), they do a poor job of developing their Adversity Quotient (AQ).
And without or lack of this important quotient, the rest may be insufficient in handling life's challenges.