These Myths About Resilience Are Holding Us Back At Work

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By Andrew Shatte’, PhD
In a New York Times Magazine column late last year, Parul Sehgal wrote critically of the “prosaic popularity” of the term “resilience.” These days, he isn’t wrong. We hear about resilience so often that it’s being steadily emptied of all practical meaning.

Which is both a shame and an irony—because it’s precisely in the workplace, where “resilience” has been reduced to such a buzzword, that it can do the most potential good. Instead, the prevailing myths that the concept’s popularization have generated are holding us back from becoming more adaptive, productive, and (yes) resilient.

Read more at Fast Company

About the Author
Andrew Shatté

Dr. Shatté is a heralded speaker, consultant, research professor and author at the vanguard of risilience training and education. After receiving undergraduate degrees in Pyschology and Philosophy, he completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at University of Pennsylvania where he worked on the first programs in positive psychology. Since, Dr. Shatté has trained tens of thousands of professionals to build their resilience and coping skills, with demonstrated long term success in productivity and performance. He is the Chief Science Officer and Co-founder of meQuilibrium.

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