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Dr. George Bonanno and “The Resilience Paradox” on The Radical Responsibility Podcast

18 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a podcast interview where Dr. George Bonanno explains his view of resilience: he rejects the idea of a fixed "resilient type," framing resilience as both a process and an outcome that is situational (we are resilient to something) and enacted repeatedly in response to new challenges. He suggests most people already possess resilience but may not recognize how they demonstrate it.

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Is that there is not a resilient type. I think that's an illusion or myth that there is a kind of a resilient person. There are. I think most people are resilient already. They just don't know it, and they don't know exactly how they're being resilient. But I always think of resilience as an outcome. It's both a process and an outcome. We are resilient to something, so we're not standing as a static thing. I'm a resilient person, therefore, next thing that happens, I will be okay. It's every time something happens, we have to engage it, and we have to then do something to become resilient. So it's sort of like life doesn't sit still. We're always confronting new and different challenges. So resilience is.