Resilience Requires Flexibility

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

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Old models frame change as something that happens to us, when in reality we are always in conversation with change: navigating life's inevitable flux, and walking the path of personal excellence, requires equal parts ruggedness and flexibility.

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"To be rugged is to be tough, determined, and durable. To be fl... See more