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Inherent in any profound challenge is the potential for crisis or opportunity. This article focuses on the opportunities that challenge presents at the level of individuals, organizations, and nations: opportunities to move beyond recovery and to display thriving by using the challenge as an impetus for change leading to growth. A variety of individual and social resources hypothesized to promote thriving are explored with an eye toward identibing a set of conceptually meaningfid categories for use in future theoretical development and empirical investigation.The world isfilled with millions of men, women, and children who, with strength and courage, grace and humol; resolve and hard work, rise above their pain and live in the face of continued suffering. In our own lives we may know some of these special people. Occasionally, someone comes along who uses personal experience to inspire others in a more public way. Such a unique person becomes a modern-day hero for everyone. 425 0 1998 The Sociely for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Challs

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