Adam Markel (speaker) argues that common definitions of "resilience" vary and may no longer serve people facing uncertain futures; he urges re-examining the paradigm, language, and application of resilience rather than treating it as a euphemism for "suck it up."
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In fact with everybody that we've studied over several years, that's what we see, that everybody defines this term a little differently. But today's conversation is going to be about the paradigm of resilience that is going to move us forward to be able to embrace an unknown and uncertain future, to look at that carefully at this moment what I would say is that we've got to examine carefully the paradigm, the language, the definition of resilience. Because I'll say this, it could be that the paradigm that you've been using when you think of that word might not be serving you any longer. And to move forward we have to think of it a bit differently. We think about this paradigm of what resilience has been and how we've applied it. Nobody put it in the chat earlier when I asked how you define it, even that word resilience today I think for so many people it's sort of a euphemism at this point for suck it up.