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[Long article, quoted passages are from different sections. Emphasis in original.]

"Resilience is a forced response to distress. Projecting it as just another 'skill' for workers glosses over the systemic failures that create so much of our distress to begin with.

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"Here's what we tend to gloss over: Resilience is a forced response to distress, not another nifty workplace skill. Instead of expecting resilience from workers, employers and society at large need to confront their own role in creating the very reasons of distress that demand resilience-inequality, discrimination, modern work's productivity obsession.

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"Organisational psychologist and coach Meg Mateer, a former Big Four consultant, says a 'skills only' approach becomes dangerous when people believe that they are suffering solely because they are not skilled enough in healthy strategies, and organisations believe their part is done after introducing these skills to workers."

-- Tanmoy Goswami, "Resilience is dead. Long live resilience", 2021-07-20

[Happy 97th birthday to President Jimmy Carter!]