to measure a resilient human being, or resilient city…
Page 253 to measure a resilient human being, or resilient city is to build an expectation of adversity, capacity for inevitable vulnerability. As a word and as a strategy comma resilience honors the unromantic reality of who we are and how we we are and so becomes a refreshingly practical compass for the system and societies we can craft it's a shift from wish-based optimism to reality-based hope. Something you've said that is striking is that we need systems that fail gracefully, that don't bring down everything else around them.
— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Becoming wise by Krista Tippett
In the book
When a string of misfortunes hits, remember that such clusters of bad luck do happen at random — and simply understanding that toughens you against them. Build, into your very plans, an expectation of adversity, so your life is a system that can fail gracefully without bringing everything else down with it; this is the shift from wish-based optimism to reality-based hope. Keep yourself accountable through it by writing down your progress, even daily, so you can see that you are in fact moving. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)