“Resilient” Isn’t the Compliment You Think It Is
I study resilience as it relates to disaster response, and contemporary scholars are more or less in agreement that the concept of resilience is used as a way to place responsibility that belongs with the government onto individuals and communities that are hit the hardest by various extreme events (almost always low income communities of color). O... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • Friday Thread: Theories of Resilience
Adversity is said to bring out the best in people. I don’t believe that for a moment. It brings out only what they have to do. It begins with self-acceptance and then proceeds, through resilience, to taking the necessary positive actions.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
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
Our individual ability to endure hardship without it traumatizing us is our capital-R Resilience, and it’s different for everybody.