There are three traits that make up hardiness: challenge, control, and commitment. Challenge means seeing problems or stressors as challenges and opportunities. Individuals with this trait accept change as part of life and don’t expect life to be easy.

Hardiness is a personality construct composed of three traits – control, commitment, and challenge – that are theorized to make one resilient in the face of stress.

According to theory, hardiness is a general quality that emerges from rich, varied, and rewarding childhood experiences (Maddi & Kobasa, 1984). This general quality manifests itself in feelings and behaviors that are characterized as commitment, control, and challenge.

Hardiness is defined as responding to stressful situations with commitment (vs. alienation), control (vs. powerlessness) and challenge (vs. threat). From: Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, 2017.

Hardiness is defined as a constellation of attitudes, beliefs, and behavioral tendencies that consist of three components: commitment, control, and challenge.

Hardiness is a quality of being tough, rugged, or vigorous. The noun hardiness comes from hardy, which was originally defined as “bold and daring in battle,” from a root that means “hard.” An important quality in a soldier or fighter is hardiness, the ability to keep going despite difficulties and challenges.

Resilience is a descriptive term, while hardiness is an explanatory one. Resilience simply describes the tendency to bounce back quickly from adversity, to remain strong under stress. Hardiness is an individual, psychological quality that contributes to and helps to explain resilience.

: of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary, so-so.

: blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior haughty aristocrats haughty young beauty …

An example of haughty is a person who drives an expensive car in a poor neighborhood, while talking badly about the people who live there. Having or showing great pride in oneself and disdain, contempt, or scorn for others; proud; arrogant; supercilious.

A haughty spirit or having haughty eyes means that we look down upon others in a condescending way. We think more highly of ourselves than we should. This is where we look scornfully, disdainfully, or almost arrogantly at others. The expression “looking down our nose” at someone applies here.

Proverbs 21:4 – A haughty look, a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked are sin.

2 feeling honoured or gratified by or as if by some distinction. 3 having an inordinately high opinion of oneself; arrogant or haughty.

(of a person) difficult to deal with; contrary. ‘The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate. ‘ ‘This verse shows that the person that is froward in heart comes up with mischief and the person sows discord.

In Proverbs 6:16-19 the passage clearly declares that God hates haughty eyes (a proud look), a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.

Explanation and Commentary of Jeremiah 17:9 The heart of a person can be corrupt, or it can be good and helpful, depending on what has been put into it, and whether it is being led by the truth. One way to be led by the deceitful heart is to give no energy to seeking the Kingdom of God and his righteousness.

n. something described as very harmful, wicked, malicious. to put your heart and mind to this great work. n. to concentrate and to sacrifice.

A heart that devises wicked schemes: looking to your own interests not the interests of the others.

Noun. Plural for wicked intention. evil intentions. bad intentions.

But if you do warn the wicked man to turn from his ways and he does not do so, he will die for his sin, but you will have saved yourself.

16 Warning Signs Of Evil People

• They have control issues. Evil people have this in common: they’re controlling.
• They are habitually dishonest. Let’s be real.
• You feel strange around them.
• They mislead you.
• They lack remorse.
• They are cruel.
• They lack responsibility.
• Their friends and family warn you.

The difference between Evil and Wicked. When used as nouns, evil means moral badness, whereas wicked means people who are wicked. When used as adjectives, evil means intending to harm, whereas wicked means evil or mischievous by nature. Wicked is also adverb with the meaning: very, extremely.

15 Of The Most Evil Men The World Has Ever Seen

1. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
2. Joseph Stalin (1878-1953)
3. Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476/77)
4. Pol Pot (1925-1998)
5. Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945)
6. Saddam Hussein (1937-2006)
7. Idi Amin (1952-2003)
8. Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584)

The Greatest Comic Book Villains of All Time

• Ra’s al Ghul.
• Hela.
• Magneto.
• The Green Goblin.
• Catwoman.
• Thanos.
• Darkseid.
• Doctor Doom. Doctor Doom, an archenemy of the Fantastic Four, was once ranked #4 by Wizard on its “101 Greatest Villains of All Time” list and #3 on IGN’s “Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time”.

When they are bringing up your past mistakes, they are often talking to themselves about the areas of their lives they think they need to improve but haven’t made progress. If they are not someone you trust, their motives could be to embarrass or control you.