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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Take the American Psychological Association’s (APA) guidance on how we can increase our resilience.4 It suggests four core components: 1.Purpose – being proactive, making progress towards goals, finding opportunities for self-discovery and helping others. 2.Healthy thinking – accepting that challenges will happen, learning from past experiences,

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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).... See more