№ 653. Resilience

 

Adam Grant

 

Fundamentally, resilience refers to positive adaptation, or the ability to maintain or regain mental health, despite experiencing adversity. Definitions have evolved as scientific knowledge has increased. Resilience is studied b yresearchers from diverse disciplines, including psychology,
psychiatry, sociology, and more recently, biological disciplines, including genetics, epigenetics, endocrinology, and neuroscience. However, no consensus on an operational definition exists. The central question is how some girls, boys, women, and men withstand adversity without developing negative physical or mental health outcomes.

In today’s fast moving world, IT systems and software need to be available 24/7. That means they need to be architected from the start for high availability and resiliency, so that they can take a hit and bounce right back. But don’t clown around. Systems need to be recoverable as well, whether they are on-premises legacy systems or born-in-the-cloud applications.