(Un)shakeable Resilience

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Resilience has been overplayed I reckon. I keep hearing suggestions that if people were more resilient, they would handle pressure better and everything would be somehow easier. On Bryn Edwards' podcast, we tackled 3 big issues with resilience:

  1. Don't try to build resilience when it's being tested. That's like asking a trainer to get you fit at the start line of an ultra-marathon. At that point you have what you have, and the last thing you need is someone telling you need more. If you are human, you already have it and are good at it. Can it be developed further? Sure, but if you are human, it's already in your DNA.

  2. Resilience = Ease. There seems to be a misconception that if you are resilient, you'll breeze through challenges and duress. Nope, you only need resilience if the pressure is on. It will help you deal with pressure, but pressure is still pressure.

  3. Sometimes resilience gets used as an excuse to avoid fixing systems that create stress in the first place. If your systems need work, do that rather than telling people they need to be more resilient.

Thanks for having me on the podcast again Bryn. I really enjoyed your questions.

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