Resilience can help cope with a volatile and uncertain world. It is not designed to provide solutions to the causes of the shocks and stresses, but rather to establish a baseline from which we can operate, recover, and move forward. In simple terms, it is about surviving and thriving.
Yet, resilience, whether professional or personal, requires an appropriate mindset or set of beliefs if it is to be effective. That mindset is shaped by values, attitudes, culture, responsibilities, and experiences which, in turn, mould the way we incorporate new knowledge and how we make sense of the world and ourselves. It influences how we think, feel, and respond in any given situation.
This book looks at the resilience mindset by taking a philosophical journey. As we live in a world of constant change, both self-imposed and inflicted, philosophy can help us understand how to cope positively and rise to the inevitable challenges. It is why philosophy down the ages has attracted students who want a deeper appreciation of resilience. Ultimately, it is the resilience of the human spirit that gives hope to human endeavours.
Here is a deep dive into the human aspects that lie behind our resilience. It examines topics such as being stoical, facing our fears, realizing our virtues, finding our values, seeking truth and trust, and coping with change. A review of the significant contributions made by philosophers past and present gives insights into the thinking and mindsets of people who have delved into the subject of resilience over the centuries. It all provides valuable lessons for dealing with today’s crises and challenges.
Nature’s Resilience is about how resilience manifests itself in the natural world, and how such biological resilience may help us understand our own human resilience.
The ways that biological organisms survive and thrive within a changing world can tell us a lot about ourselves, our behaviours and our approach to problem-solving. We may not be able to learn directly from the pine tree, the bear or the octopus, but they can reveal activities, behaviours, even chemicals or genes, that can benefit our world. What is more, animals and plants have been at the resiliency game for much longer than people and many have thrived through tumultuous, evolutionary times.
The biological world can provide examples of how nature has solved challenges, and we should be humble enough to take note and reflect. The solutions can indeed have relevance for our complex and sophisticated range of human activities such as healthcare and wellbeing, including the sources of valuable drugs that can alleviate human ailments; physical security and national deterrence; crisis management and business continuity; organisational agility and corporate networking.
By focusing on ten profiles of specific plants and animals, this book provides a unique window on our understanding of resilience in a broader context and by so doing provides pointers as to how we might improve and save ourselves from worsening the imbalance between the natural world and the human one.
Resilience in Action
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The international rules-based order is gone, and today's world is becoming daily more unstable and dangerous. But although the fundamental importance of resilience for national survival in a time of adversity is widely acknowledged by national security specialists, there is still too little public awareness of the issues involved and, in the UK and many other Western countries, too little government attention paid to achieving that resilience.
In his excellent series of books and publications exploring the issue of resilience in depth, Robert Hall has set himself the task of explaining clearly and compellingly what makes for resilience in state and society, why it is so crucial to our coping with today's rapidly changing world, and how it can be achieved both personally and institutionally.
In this latest book, Resilience in Action, the author provides us with a penetrating and insightful study of the lives and experiences of a diverse selection of individuals drawn from history who exemplify resilience in its many and varied forms. With his original approach to understanding resilience by observing it in action and providing us with role models, Robert Hall has made a unique contribution to our understanding and has firmly established himself as the leading author on this crucial topic.
Chris Donnelly CMG is a former Special Advisor to four NATO Secretaries General and Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. He is currently Principal Counsellor at Earendel Associates Ltd
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