ConserveLiberty takes the approach that many of the personality traits that humans (or any of the other animals) possess have organic roots. Our behavior - the way we detect, perceive, interpret, and react to things - is rooted in the way we are built. The way we are "wired up and connected" determines "The Device That We Are" so to speak. Thus, what we are, who "The Me" is ... has its origins (at the Individual organism level) in our genetics.

And so it is with Resilience.

Click here →  for Wikipedia's extensive description of Resilience.

Or, click here →  for a similar definition of Resilience from Psychology Today.

ConserveLiberty takes a slightly different approach to the Resilience Tapestry, broadening out the definition of "resilience" further. ConserveLiberty does not simply regard resilience as something that manifests itself as an triumph-resulting behavioral response to difficult circumstances that would frustrate, erode, or defeat others. Rather, ConserveLiberty regards resilience as the manifestation of "solutions" oriented behaviors and perspectives under many different circumstances. Resilience certainly is a recognizable behavioral approach to especially challenging times in one's life and the lives of others. But it is not limited to that.

Resilience is an approach to achieving a goal:

• It is an approach that does not "give up" in finding a solution to achieving that goal.
  
  
• It will bring in creative thinking. Not just if it is relevant (without a solution at hand, who would know?). Rather, if creative thinking is able to be brought to bear, it will be brought to bear.
  
  
• It will bring in physical effort if increased physical effort is possible. Not just effort that is thought relevant or tolerable. Additional physical effort will be brought to bear if possible at all.

Resilient people are not Quitters. The thought of quitting generally never enters their mind ... other than that they understand that other people do quit. Their Goal and finding a Solution to achieving their Goal is what occurs to resilient people.

Evolutionarily speaking, survival behavior (the determination to persist) is a biologically selected instinct. If not for the individual, then for the team, or for the "related gene pool" (e.g. family, etc.) Thus, there is a tight correlation between "people and teams that survive against all odds AND Resilience."

This chapter will address several examples of Resilience manifesting itself throughout All That Is. Each example will be addressed in separate sections:

• Creation - The Persistent Resilience of All That Is to continue Being can be seen from the beginning of The Big Bang, through the creation of all the subatomic and atomic particles that make up all matter, through the evolution of Living Things, and within our own lives. Creation has been quite resilient for billions of years (or more?!). Keeps on going.
  
  
  • Immediately after the Big Bang - Existence Persistence, through
    
    
  • Stellar evolution - Particle and Energy Persistence, and
    
    
  • Everything that has happened in between and will afterwards.
  
  
  
  Change never doesn't happen. Change is Resilient.
• Evolution - An awesome mechanism that keeps the Lineage of The Living going, despite enormous and unexpected changes.
  
  
  • Evolutionary selection - Lineage Persistence.
    
    
  • Selective evolution enables Persistence.
    
    
  • Multi-host relationships lead to selection for required multi-stage development synergies.
  
  
• The Self - The "Me" as a cognitive phenomenon, manifested uniquely in each individual on the planet, is compelled to persist. The "Cognitive Me" is neurophysiologically, neuropsychologically, and environmentally based. Each of us manifests a Me and each Me is built differently, unique.
  
  
  • Goal persistence - examples of both Instinct Resilience and Habituation Persistence.
    
    
  • Location sentimentality - Location Resilience, often interpreted as a fondness for home. Not to be confused with the Cognitive Home, which resonates with the circumstance where we are Welcome.
    
    
  • Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) - The "Me" can be dramatically knocked offline. To the degree that physiology is left intact, the "Me" is built to reboot back online. The "Old/New Me!" The Me, always Resilient, heals as long as it can.
    
    
    
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  • Athletic resilience. - Dominance and Winning is an evolutionarily selected instinct that helps insure Resilient Persistence.
    
    
    • GoPro examples of Resilience in the context of "reaching high in a quest for extraordinary achievement, respect for risk, dominance of will over fear, and fun."
  
  
  
• Individual Persistence to Live - All individuals, bacterial thru human, have a termination date. Yet none gives up ... and then each ends. (Note: The Individual is the stepping stone for The Lineage. Reproduction is the way The Lineage persists.)
  
  
  • Example - The Dog. A great example of a species instinctively built to keep moving forward. Never gives up. Resilient to the End.
    
    
  • Example - The Human. Ditto. Those who aren't don't last long.
    
    
  • Example - Life on the planet ... non-total-extinction resilience. Through all the Earth's massive extinction events, at least one branch of The Lineage persisted.
  
  
• Etc.

Randomly introduced Change?

Did selective evolution (which terminates that which has not had the good fortune to find itself persistent) generate the manifestation of Resilience?

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Note   →   Any action or arrangement or phenomenon that persists IS Resilient   ←   Note

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This section will have content posted to it in subsequent revisions of this chapter (The Resilience Personality Spectrum Tapestry).


Physiological and neurological issues:


The Spiritual (just blessed that way, instinctively):



The Conservation of Liberty is syncronous with Resilience.

→ The Big Picture section was last updated 21 May 2018 22:35 PDT ←

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