Adam MarkelInternational Keynote Speaker On Resilience

The Great Exhaustion - Adam Markel

Name: The Great Exhaustion - Adam Markel
Uploaded: 2023-10-17T20:45:52+00:00
Duration: 1 min 21 s
Channel: Adam Markel
Description: Adam Markel critiques the traditional model of resilience (grit as enduring punches and persevering) and argues that this paradigm fails during prolonged…

17 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Adam Markel critiques the traditional model of resilience (grit as enduring punches and persevering) and argues that this paradigm fails during prolonged crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. He links persistent pandemic fatigue to what is commonly called the "great resignation," reframing it as a consequence of "the great exhaustion," and highlights that exhaustion carries real costs for people and work.

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And sometimes when I'm in front of people, I'll say, so is anybody in the room from Philly? Anybody know anybody from Philly? Yeah, look at him. He don't look too good. He's all banged up in the end. And yet this is our model. This is how we define resilience for ourselves. Is this capacity to take that punch and. And keep going. That's the issue, because it's an old paradigm, and it doesn't work. And I take no exception. I love Angela Duckworth's work on grit. I love her TED Talk. And there's a place at the table for grit and tenacity. I am very much a tenacious person. But how's that working? How's it working in the midst of a pandemic? Can you grit your way through this? You think it's possible to outrun it? The marathon that just keeps going, the gift that just keeps giving? No, because what's turned into the great resignation is really about the great exhaustion and what we're talking about from the standpoint of the work that you do in the world. People are worn out. They are exhausted. And there is a cost to exhaustion. J.