""We've glorified resilience as this virtue," he told me. "Bounce back, return to normal, weather the storm. But the literal definition of resilience is the ability of a system to return to its original baseline after being disturbed.""
""That's fine if you're a rubber band. But in nature - and in human systems - survival doesn't come from returning to where you were. It comes from becoming something you weren't before. The most enduring systems - biological, social, or economic - don't revert. They evolve. Resilience is static. It's about homeostasis. Evolution is d"
A trauma specialist and martial practitioner uses yiquan and nervous-system techniques to train clarity under pressure for special-forces veterans, investors, and CEOs. Training emphasizes coherence of the nervous system during stress and practical practices that prevent fracturing under pressure. Resilience is commonly defined as the capacity to return to an original baseline after disturbance. That definition privileges homeostasis and reversion. Enduring biological, social, and economic systems succeed by changing and evolving rather than reverting. Reframing resilience as desire emphasizes transformation and forward adaptation over mere recovery to a prior state.
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