How Resilience Works Project Report 2022

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................... 2
The Buzz About Resilience................................................................................................. 2
Idea in Brief.................................................................................................................... 2
Idea in Practice............................................................................................................... 3
Facing Down Reality........................................................................................................ 4
The Search for Meaning.................................................................................................... 4
Ritualized Ingenuity......................................................................................................... 5
Conclusion ..............6
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HOW RESILIENCE WORKS
Project Report
Group 1 Members
Ayesha Asif (01-112192-015)
Areeba Siddiqui (01-112192-010)
FaizanGhafoor (01-112192-020)
Rajah Monzoor Ali (01-11201-081)

Introduction
Resilience is the capacity to adaptively overcome stress and adversity while
maintaining normal psychological and physical functioning. Being resilient does not
mean that people don’t experience stress, emotional disturbance, and suffering. Some
people compare resilience with mental toughness, but demonstrating resilience includes
working through emotional pain and suffering. Claus Schmidt face many difficulties in
his life he lost his best friend and three kids that’s why he milled around the newsroom
day after day, mentoring the cub reporters, talking about the novels he was writing, and
always looking forward to what the future held for him. He could have reacted very
differently. It takes time, strength, and help from people around you, and you’ll likely
experience setbacks along the way. But eventually, you reach the top and look back at
how far you’ve come. When facing difficulties in life, some people seem to cope easier
than others. Is it genetic or can it be learned?
The Buzz About Resilience
In the business arena, resilience is not only surviving the chaos but thriving in it
and growing from it. It is bouncing back and jumping forward and resilience has also
found its way onto the list of qualities sought in employees.
Idea in Brief
"More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person's level
of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails." Theories abound about what
produces resilience, but three fundamental characteristics seem to set resilient people and
companies apart from others. These are first a (black) sense of humor, providing a critical
sense of reality. Second is the ability to form an attachment to others, which gives
meaning to life. And third, the ability to improvise, protecting them from the intrusions of
abusive others. These three characteristics hold for resilient people in whatever situation
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they are in but also for organizations. Their level of resilience will determine whether
they will succeed or fail. They can only be truly resilient when they take on all three
building blocks. People carry through tough times and deep recessions are its Resilience.
These three building blocks of resilience with several clarifying examples. One of these
examples is the empirical study on the survival of Holocaust victims in concentration
camps. Researchers found out that these people had a “plastic shield” that consisted of
these three building blocks of resilience.
Idea in Practice
In order to develop resilience, apply the following practices:
1. Face Down Reality
By examining the reality of your situation with a clear mind, you will be able to
deduce ways to cope up with the difficulty. Questioning your survival abilities only will
not help you at all.
2. Search for Meaning
Instead of considering yourself as a victim and constantly thinking about the
question “Why me?”, search deeper for meaningful reasons behind your suffering. This
will make it easier for you manage the situation and better prepare you for the future
ordeals.
3. Continually Improvise
Being creative and thinking out of the box will aid you much in devising solutions
for your problems. Utilize the available resources to the fullest and search for sensible
and innovative possibilities.
Past theories about resilience mostly focused on the connection of genes and
resiliency. However, empirical evidence suggests that role of genetics is not always
important; resiliency can be learned. Moreover, theories suggest that truly resilient people
/ organizations have three common characteristics: a staunch acceptance of reality; an
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