Resilience is at once proactive, pragmatic, and humble. It knows it needs others. It doesn’t overcome failure so much as transmute it, integrating it into the reality that evolves.
—Krista Tippett 2016, p. 252
Individual resilience is our ability to bounce back from adversity, and collective resilience is the group or community analog. When we’re resilient as individuals, we rely on a number of skills and personal resources to get us through difficult situations. When we have resilience as a collective, we rely on a number of individuals to get us through. Collective resilience is the safety net we weave together as a work team, a family, or a community.
Humans work together naturally for survival, it’s part ...
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