Md. Taqi Yasir
Inc website related the term of human resilience with The New York Times, New Yorker and Most of Academia. Resilience is a hot topic. It’s valuable to know to handle challenges and recover from adversity. Those who can will succeed and attract people others can’t. You might expect the latest research and top media to help you. When people depend on you, the customers, employees, investors, and partners, you learn to solve problems. Academia doesn’t have that motivation and it ends up researching forever, no r does the media and it end up writing thought provoking stuff.
The New Yorker’s “How People Learn to Become Resilient” describes many cases where people, often children, faced and overcame adversity. Over and over, though, the researches they cite consider adversity a product of external conditions. In other words, they considered being in mud bad, being in the cold and rain bad, a problem with a spacecraft bad, end of story.
If you led your teams like that, you’d fall apart after the first conflict, first blown sales meeting, first competitive loss. It recounts situations and anecdotes related to people handling difficulties, focusing, for some reason, on elite universities, and dismissing people figuring out how to thrive.
It’s sad that in an area so important for improving your life and teamwork, these vaunted sources of knowledge gaze at their navels more than help people improve their lives. But influencing people to improve their lives is what leaders do. When we need to act we leaders are often our best resources, despite the vaunted reputation of others.