Reading path
Community & Resilience
Essays on resilience, burnout, moral injury, mutual aid, and the structures that help people survive difficult times together.
Essays in this path
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Resilience Is a Systems Problem
Why grit isn't enough
After a project failed during the chaos of 2020, I went looking for personal explanations and found something else: decades of resilience research that treats hardship as expected, not exceptional. This essay traces what protective factors are, why workplaces keep outsourcing disruption to individuals, and what ants, mutual aid networks, and leaving music education taught me about adaptation versus grit.
Further reading
- A Paradise Built in Hell — Rebecca Solnit · Book
- Resilience in Development — Emmy E. Werner (1995) · Paper
- Developmental Psychopathology: Perspectives on Adjustment, Risk, and Disorder — Suniya S. Luthar, Jacob A. Burack, Dante Cicchetti, and John R. Weisz (1997) · Book
- Community resilience — · Article
- Psychosocial Resilience and Protective Mechanisms — Michael Rutter (1987) · Paper