The people who build spacecraft to explore the solar system can do this job only if they don’t freak out when they’re in the Dark Room, that place where you know you have no solution to your problem. So you develop resilience in order to avoid panic. But the effort to be resilient and keep marching forward can sometimes mean that you don’t take reparative action when things really are as bad as they seem. You’re working hard to stay in calm mode when occasionally it’s appropriate to freak out and hit the alarm.
