Alex Schmitt
1 min readSep 6, 2024

Sorry, but I think that you, like many others, don't fully understand what resilience means.

It's about recovering without traces of trauma. Sure it is more easy saying that doing, however this is the goal: "Psychological resilience is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly." says Wikipedia.

The old saying "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." expresses the situation where resilience has not worked. Only modern society makes resilience possible. In traditional societies the weaker becomes the scapegoat even with good people as bullies. It's just animal behavior. Exceptions exist, but that's why we call them exceptions. The situations you describe are reminiscent of traditional values, not 21st century ones. There is no resilience there, only a culture of holding tight until it breaks.

I don't think accountability improves resilience, it lessen it though. It may help some people. But resilience is about completely forgetting/recovering from a traumatic experience. Because traumatic memories are emotional and dynamic, thus changing over time and often with a non-negligible unconscious part.

At the end of you article you wrote: "We need accountability to ensure our purposeful efforts are directed toward meaningful progress." Do you use a time machine to check what progress will be considered meaningful far ahead? It reminds me that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

You're right, we need a new framework. More and more people are beginning to understand that working on the body, making it healthy and strong and flexible, is what resilience is all about.

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Alex Schmitt
Alex Schmitt

Written by Alex Schmitt

Author of "Gordian Knots: A Disruptive Spirituality for the Singularity", included the Tensigral Patterns Yoga method. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLXYYK1D

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