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What is the meaning of resilience??

30 Oct 2023 · 0 min

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Short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video titled "What is the meaning of resilience??" (creator/uploader: James Laughlin). Speaker A asks "What is resilience?" and Speaker B defines resilience not as "bouncing back" but as "bouncing forward"—growing, learning, and becoming better through challenges, unapologetic and unrelenting in continuous growth. The excerpt emphasizes transformation and learning rather than returning to a prior state.

What is resilience?
Resilience is so many things you'd expect me to say that I'm biased. I love the subject more than anything. But one of the things that I think we need to really focus on is the fact that resilience is not just bouncing back. Most of us have witnessed the fact that what we tend to bounce back to is no longer there by the time when we recover. Resilience is fundamentally about bouncing forward better than you were before your predicament found you. About being unapologetic and unrelenting. About gaining lessons learned, expanding, growing through every challenge, good, bad or otherwise. Continuously growing, growing.
I love that. That's so clear.