Bouncing Forward, Not Backward—A New Look at Resilience
Posted by Transitions Through Life on March 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The rubber band is often used as the metaphor for resilience. It indicates that once pushed beyond what you can handle, with resilience, you eventually bounce back to where you are. But is bouncing back the right metaphor? Will anything ever be the same for the miners who were trapped in the Chilean mines? Or for those devastated by recent events in Japan?
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