![]() They make the most of what they have, putting objects to unfamiliar uses. Bricoleurs are always tinkeringbuilding radios from household effects or fixing their own cars. ![]() 1 Intriguingly, the roots of that word are closely tied to the concept of resilience, which literally means "bouncing back." Says Levi-Strauss: "In its old sense, the verb bricoler was always used with reference to some extraneous movement: a ball rebounding, a dog straying, or a horse swerving from its direct course to avoid an obstacle."īricolage in the modern sense can be defined as a kind of inventiveness, an ability to improvise a solution to a problem without proper or obvious tools or materials. Psychologists follow the lead of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss in calling this skill bricolage. The third building block of resilience is the ability to make do with whatever is at hand. This excerpt discusses the last of the three, "ritualized ingenuity." ![]() You can bounce back from hardship with just one or two of these qualities, but you will only be truly resilient with all three. ![]() But what is it? Where does it come from? The author looks at research that suggests resilient people possess three characteristics: a staunch acceptance of reality a deep belief, often buttressed by strongly held values, that life is meaningful and an uncanny ability to improvise. Why do some people suffer real hardships and not falter? Why do some organizations overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to prosper while other companies cave in at the slightest adversity? ![]()
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