In some cases, it merely exposed them in others, it exacerbated them. The pandemic didn’t create these problems.
And profound racial disparities have marred everything from employment to health and housing. Economic inequality between the rich and poor has been soaring at an alarming rate. He points out that even before the pandemic upended our lives, much of what was considered normal in society was deeply problematic: People had been reporting feeling lonelier and more isolated than ever before. Growth is charting a new course,” Zaki said. “Resilience is staying the course through a storm.
Instead of resilience – which is about bouncing back from disaster, unchanged – growth through adversity is about finding ways to learn from those hardships and focus on what matters. Zaki believes a concept psychologists call “growth through adversity” may be key to defining what this “new normal” could look like.
Instead of emerging from the coronavirus pandemic merely resilient to crisis and catastrophe, Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki asks what if we grew stronger because of it?
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