Resilience – how far can flexible adaptation go?

Resilience is closely linked to the idea that in the so-called risk societies of a globalising world, complex relationships are at work that make it increasingly difficult to successfully withstand challenges, and instead require a different type of coping capacity to deal with shocks. If we want to survive the challenges of everyday life in a healthy way, we need to develop ourselves – this is especially true for Generation X – but in order to improve our own adaptability, we must learn about the specific factors of resilience and understand where we are in the process of personal development. Only this way can we define exactly what we still need to develop, for instance acceptance, responsibility, personal efficiency, healthy positivism, anger management, social relations, empathy and person-oriented thinking. //