Friday Thread: Theories of Resilience
Resilience requires a kind of elasticity, an ability to stretch and reach but then to return, to spring back into a former shape—or perhaps to shapeshift into something new if the circumstances require it. Resilience is stretchy where optimization is brittle; resilience invites change where optimization demands continuity. But whether we’re talking
... See moreMandy Brown • Against Optimization
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As Diane Coutu so eloquently explains in her luminous “How Resilience Works,” “Resilient people possess three characteristics — a staunch acceptance of reality; a deep belief, often buttressed by strongly held values, that life is meaningful; and an uncanny ability to improvise. You can bounce back from hardship with just one or two of these qualit
... See moreAndrea Ovans • What Resilience Means, and Why It Matters
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The Resilience Myth
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Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
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Other Internet • Squad Wealth
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Resilience Requires Flexibility
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Resilience = emergence of something new, not a maintaining of the same
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