"there are a number of things you can do to become resilient, but none of them are going to come of your actively choosing that you *WANT* to become more resilient"
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unfortunately, the opportunity to become more resilient is never something you consent to.
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Replying to @sadmoonanalog
seems questionable. people are identified as engaging in "self-destructive behavior" all the time, which seems like it could be as easily read as intentional resilience building
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Replying to @chaosprime @sadmoonanalog
I can assure you, through years of experience, that the only "resilience" self-destruction brings is learning how to repeatedly pull yourself back from the metaphorical cliff edge you nearly flung yourself over
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Replying to @violentkeysmash @chaosprime
yeah idk that's how I'm thinking about it too. I guess some sense of positive/constructive resilience is what I mean by resilience. idk, maybe I'm missing something?
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Replying to @sadmoonanalog @violentkeysmash
hm. consider a plan of: 1. identify a situation where one responds to stressors with fragility 2. develop an idea of how to respond more resiliently 3. intentionally expose self to situation 4. evaluate idea, refine, repeat is this not intentional resilience development?
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Replying to @chaosprime @sadmoonanalog
self-destructive behaviour doesn't involve this much planning, dude this is more like, idk, self-constructive behaviour?
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Replying to @violentkeysmash @sadmoonanalog
i'm not trying to identify that structure with "self-destructive behavior", just going back to the original thing about resilience never developing because you want it to
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Replying to @chaosprime @sadmoonanalog
maybe? the framework you've outlined is similar to therapeutic frameworks for building distress tolerance ("resilience"). but if you're equating "want to" with intentionality, and since the framework requires intentional planning, one can only build resilience if one wants to.
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Replying to @violentkeysmash @sadmoonanalog
sure. the original assertion is that is itself not sufficient, that things you can do to build resilience aren't things that will happen because of wanting that / that you can choose / that you can consent to. i think i see a point there but i'm questioning how complete it is
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the idea seems to be that resilience is built in adversity and you'll always choose to avoid adversity to the extent that you can. which i don't think is necessarily the case
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