Your response is an asset when conditions are not.

When the situation offers you nothing, your own conduct is still something you own and can make good. How you handle a bad stretch is a genuine asset: it shapes what you learn, who stays with you, and what you can build afterward. It is often the only asset available.

In a period where nothing is going your way, set a standard for your own behaviour and hold it. Not for anyone’s approval but because it is the piece you still control. That standard usually turns out to have compounded later.