Month: January 2011
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On resilience and tragedy
Resilience: an antidote to tragedy. Conclusion: “[M]ental toughness is something like the physical strength: It cannot develop without exercise, and it breaks down when overworked.”
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On the value of resilience
In his book The Wisdom of the Ego, George Vaillant argues that resilience involves the ability to bend like a reed and to spring back. Could resilience be a kind of happiness?
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NYT columnist David Brooks on civility
Civility, Brooks shows, is a public virtue that’s largely absent from political life today. He concludes that the source of civility is a sense of modesty.
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Nietzsche on hardship
In this three-part series that originally aired on the BBC, Alain de Botton discusses Nietzsche’s view that suffering is a necessary component of a well-lived life.
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Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 