Resilience is everywhere right now.

In job descriptions, leadership programs, school curriculums and wellness strategies. It's the word everyone's using and almost no one is questioning.

And that's exactly the problem.

In this episode, Amy takes on one of the most celebrated concepts in the modern workplace and asks the question nobody seems to be asking. Not 'How do we build more resilience?' but 'Why are we asking people to be resilient in the first place?'

What is going on that we need people to cope better? And what are we actually missing when we celebrate someone's ability to endure?

The way we've been using resilience isn't building stronger people. It's building a more sophisticated tolerance for conditions that probably shouldn't be tolerated. And there is a very big difference between those two things.

We've turned resilience into a performance standard. A hiring criteria. A KPI.

The more you can handle, the better employee you are. The more pressure you absorb without complaining, the more resilient you're seen to be. And in doing that, we've quietly used resilience to silence the signal instead of addressing the source.

The person who flags something is wrong? Do they have low resilience? The person who keeps their head down and pushes through? Are they the high performers?

But what if the system is the problem? What if the conditions are the issue? What if resilience has been used against the very people it was supposed to protect?

This is the conversation we're not willing to have but it’s the one that just could matter the most.

WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER IN THIS EPISODE:

• 00:01 – Why resilience has become one of the most misused concepts in the modern workplace
• 02:12 – The difference between being resilient and being told to endure
• 06:38 – How resilience became a KPI and why that's a problem
• 11:02 – Why burnout keeps rising no matter how much wellbeing and resilience training you throw at it
• 13:10 – What resilience was actually supposed to mean before we turned it into a coping strategy

The Wellness Paradox is Amy’s new book for everyone who is tired of being told to do more.

Buy direct from Amy (signed copies available) or order on Amazon https://amygreen.com.au/thewellnessparadox-thebook

ABOUT AMY GREEN

Amy Green is a futurist, keynote speaker, and author of The Wellness Paradox, a book that interrogates the six paradoxes keeping us trapped in a version of success that was never designed to make us well. She is the founder of The Wellness Strategy and has spent years studying the intersection of work and life, and the systems that shape both.

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