Overthinking About Resilience
At the opening assembly of host Amanda Montell's Baltimore public arts high school, whose student body featured a wide range of socioeconomic and racial backgrounds, the vice principal gave an address that encouraged everyone listening to "have grit." No matter what you're going through at school or at home, in the face of adversity, keep your nose down and your chin up. Be resilient. This always stuck out as a complicated piece of one-size-fits-all advice. In our ever-complicating society, as we increasingly center critiques of systemic injustice and legitimize mental health discourse, how is our relationship to "resilience" changing? Journalist Soraya Chemaly (@sorayachemaly), author of The Resilience Myth, joins Amanda (@amanda_montell) to help us better understand the concepts of grit, optimism, and the not-infrequent desire to just give up all "resilience" and break down.\nThis episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/MAGICAL and get on your way to being your best self.\n\n- Join\xa0the\xa0"Magical Overthinkers Club" by following\xa0the\xa0pod on Instagram\xa0@magicaloverthinkers.\n- To access early, ad-free episodes and more, subscribe to\xa0the\xa0Magical Overthinkers Substack.\n- Pick up a hard copy of Amanda's book\xa0The\xa0Age of Magical\xa0Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, or listen to\xa0the\xa0audiobook.\n\nTo watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/MagicalOverthinkersYouTube\xa0; Don\u2019t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening\nIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, DM, email, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/MagicalOverthinkers\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices