Homo Resiliencus: thoughts on thriving in modern society

It’s been a while since I wrote a blog here. I have been busy enough, also reading other contributions. I have many thoughts, and opinions, thoroughly thought through or less so. My trouble was, and is, to structure them sufficiently so they have a coherent theme. That’s when it struck me: I love turning things upside down, or inside out. So turning a weakness into a strength seemed the way to go: I have ingredients for a story, but not the story line itself. Then why not present the ingredients, and let readers compile their own story? That seems especially valid since none of the thoughts are completely original. Formulated positively: there’s sure to be some point(s) of recognition in there. Everything is a remix, after all.

To start it all off I am jumping to the end of this article: “Don’t fear (a level of) inconsistency”.

Now walk beside me to see how we get there.

My earlier statement is not entirely true, there is somewhat of a storyline as you can see in the title. But it only emerged once I had started to think about the points that I thought might be worthwhile to share. At the same time, another thing holding me back was my general dislike of the advice-format that is often chosen for articles like this one, certainly…