The real reason some people adapt faster than others

"[Narrator] Developing tools to overcome trauma. When we began to become confident that we really had identified something real, this resilience trajectory I've talked about, we've identified it in many studies at this point. It's been identified convincingly in the majority and over 100 research studies by other people than myself, lots of other people. So it's very much a real thing."

"The big question then is why are most people resilient and why are some people not resilient? That turned out to be a harder question to answer than I thought, because when we measure the things that correlate with resilience, the things that co-occur with resilience, we find lots of different factors. The kind of a myth in the general public, we see it in the media, we see it in even in some professional literature is that there are a few magic traits."

Resilience is a common outcome after adversity, observed across many independent studies and present in the majority of cases. Multiple research teams have documented a resilience trajectory in over 100 studies, indicating resilience is a real and reproducible pattern. Many different factors correlate with resilient outcomes, but each factor exerts only a small effect rather than a dominant influence. Popular narratives and online media amplify perceptions of widespread fragility, but allowing oneself to believe in personal strength can facilitate recovery and moving forward. Explaining why some individuals are not resilient remains complex and unresolved.

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