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— 29 July 2025 —

Rethinking resilience

Resilience

Resilience has been cast in the glow of the heroic comeback: the cancer survivor turned bestselling author, the amputee who runs a marathon, the refugee who becomes a congresswoman, the penniless single mother who becomes an environmental lawyer and saves her polluted hometown. But most resilience doesn’t make the headlines. It doesn’t always roar. Sometimes it’s the quiet decision to just keep going – to get out of bed, to show up, to begin again.

Alene Dawson

Read full article by Alene Dawson in John Templeton Foundation News

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