You pride yourself on being "resilient". Which statement is most likely to sound mature and high-performing...While quietly accelerating your burnout?

You pride yourself on being “resilient”. Which statement is most likely to sound mature and high-performing…While quietly accelerating your burnout?

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Your nervous system wasn’t built for constant, low-grade threat — and control rituals can become a survival loop that keeps you in hypervigilance. “Toughing it out” often looks like strength but functions like denial: it pushes pain underground, turns uncertainty into over-control, and drains your internal reserves faster.
Shatterproof isn’t about becoming harder — it’s about shifting from endurance to transformation: reading signals, changing choices, and rebuilding stability through trust, choice, and connection.

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Resilience: The myth that’s wearing you down

Business Digest # 327, Spring-Summer 2025.

Based on “Shatterproof” by Tasha Eurich, MacMillan 2025.

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The illusion is shattered: being strong is no longer enough. This world in constant crisis—where we are drowning in burnout, eco-anxiety and mental overload—breaks down even the most hardened individuals. While Tasha Eurich doesn’t offer a magic fix, she does shatter assumptions and dismantle feel-good illusions, offering us something else instead: a blueprint for navigating chaos and emerging stronger… not untouched—but transformed. And solid—in our own way.

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Published by Françoise Tollet

She spent 12 years in industry, working for Bolloré Technologies, among others. She co-founded Business Digest in 1992 and has been running the company since 1998. And she took the Internet plunge in 1996, even before coming on board as part of the BD team. 