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I responded to them too, but I think their point is that some people have an internal sense of resilience, or a constructed foundation of security, that makes t
by swatcoder 4y ago
I responded to them too, but I think their point is that some people have an internal sense of resilience, or a constructed foundation of security, that makes them less susceptible to anxiety in the face of unexpected change.
You’re right that this doesn’t mean that people who are more anxious have somehow failed morally or behaviorally, and also right that nobody is immune to anxiety altogether.
But I don’t think they were saying those things. They were just saying that some people are capable of navigating stuff like job loss with confidence and sharing their experience of environments that seemed to have proportionately more or less of those people.
I do think that on net it read as dismissive to the real personal experience of the “oranges” who are highlighted in the article, but also think you’re responding to things that weren’t said there.
- xyzelement 4y agoThank you for articulating what I was saying better than I did. You are exactly right in what I am saying and there's a part of me that hopes some people are inspired by this information to build up their resilience
- leto_ii 4y ago> their point is that some people have an internal sense of resilience, or a constructed foundation of security This may be true, but I think that this is also something that can be learned, at least to a good degree. Personally I feel I have managed to become less anxiety-prone through conscious effort and introspective work. Being an "orange" is not an immutable fact.