Building Resilience & Growth
editMechanism & Guiding Principle
edit- Autonomous Self-Persuasion guided by Prudent-Discernment
- Guards clear perception
- Preserves independent judgment
- Volition is exercised
- Prudence → [Context-Appropriate Regulator]
- Practical wisdom guides situation-specific calibrations of virtue
- Transforms stress into growth
1. Primary Stress Regulators
edit- Prudence
- Practical wisdom that guides the application of all other virtues
- Habit of making right decisions at the right time for the right reasons
- Courage
- Controls primal instincts
- Balances fear and confidence
- Responds appropriately to dangers
- Temperance
- Moderation that pursues the right things in the right way and amount
- Fosters self-mastery and balance
- Justice
- Ensures internal and social balance through fairness and impartiality
- Harmonizes the self with others
2. Response Categories
edit- Biological response
- Mind response
- Prudence → Courageous-Reappraisal
- Test thoughts for truth
- Challenge emotional logic
- Cognitive reappraisal-like reframing of perceptions with flexibility
- Social response
- Prudence → Just-Reciprocity
- Maintain fair, mutual commitment
- Balanced offering/receiving of support
3. Stress Integration into Growth
edit- Intensity Calibration
- Prudence → Tempered-Pace
- Preserve strength through tempered-pacing
- Aligning Stress with Purpose
- Courage → Effective-Perseverance
- Let meaning and inner strength fuel consistent action
4. Response to External Pressures
edit- Persuasion-based
- Prudence → Selective-Engagement
- Thoughtfully choose which voluntary influences to engage with
- Manage Cognitive load of multiple perspectives
- Perception-based
- Prudence → Discerning-Vigilance
- Be selective and clear in judging Information
- Force-based
- Courage ← Prudence → Resilient-Integrity
- Use Integrity-informed courage to enforce boundaries against harmful pressure
- Adapt boundaries through discernment
5. Resilience Architecture
edit- Individual capacity
- Courage ← Prudence → Resilient-Effectiveness
- Build endurance and effective action
- Rest is essential to restore capacity
- Social capacity
- Justice ↔ Temperance → Reciprocal-Boundaries
- Agreements for Mutual aid
- Based on consent, shared values, and renegotiation
- Structural awareness
- Prudence → Humble-Responsibility
- Recognize systemic limits
- Align actions to them
6. Integration Dynamic
edit- Prudence → Flexibility
- Continuous calibration between Autonomy and interdependence
- Prudence → Clarity-Preservation
- Manage Decision fatigue and processing stress from autonomy-preserving influences
- Temperance → Selective-Availability
- Limit exposure to persuasive inputs, even valid ones
- Preserve discernment capacity
7. Relationship Principles
edit- Reciprocal-Empathy
- Justice ← Prudence
- Offer and receive Empathy voluntarily
- Receiving support preserves capacity for reciprocity
- Autonomous-Discernment
- Prudence → Discernment
- Preserve independent judgment within relationships
8. Response Process
edit- Initiation
- Prudence → Examined-Courage
- Assess the situation
- Act with truth-seeking intent
- Perseverance
- Temperance ← Prudence → Compassionate-Patience
- Pace yourself
- Regression is part of adaptive recalibration
9. Goals in this Framework
edit- Awareness
- Prudent-Discernment
- Accurate perception through Wisdom
- Agency
- Courage ← Prudence → Sovereign-Agency
- Direct your own actions
- Includes choosing when not to act (Autonomy)
- Adaptability
- Temperance ← Courage → Receptive-Efficacy
- Recalibrate dynamically
- Stillness preserves clarity
Concept Mapping
editThis framework introduces a number of coined terms. The table below maps them to the closest existing Wikipedia concepts and notes where each term appears in the outline.
Coined Term | Closest Wikipedia Article(s) | Appears In | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Autonomous Self-Persuasion | Self-persuasion, Autonomy | Mechanism & Guiding Principle | Internal, voluntary influence process |
Prudent-Discernment | Phronesis, Discernment, Prudence | Mechanism & Guiding Principle; Goals – Awareness | Practical wisdom applied to judgment/clear perception |
Context-Appropriate Regulator | Practical wisdom | Mechanism & Guiding Principle | Prudence as situational calibrator of virtues |
Tempered-Attunement | Homeostasis, Self-regulation | Response Categories – Biological | Balanced physiological regulation |
Courageous-Reappraisal | Cognitive reappraisal, Courage | Response Categories – Mind | Reframing that explicitly leverages courage |
Just-Reciprocity | Reciprocity, Justice | Response Categories – Social | Fair, mutual exchange of support/commitment |
Tempered-Pace | Pacing, Self-regulation | Stress Integration into Growth – Intensity Calibration | Energy and intensity pacing to preserve capacity |
Effective-Perseverance | Perseverance, Grit, Meaning | Stress Integration into Growth – Aligning Stress with Purpose | Purpose-fueled, courageous persistence |
Selective-Engagement | Selective attention, Cognitive load | Response to External Pressures – Persuasion-based | Choosing which voluntary influences to admit |
Discerning-Vigilance | Critical thinking, Discernment, Information | Response to External Pressures – Perception-based | Ongoing quality control of inputs |
Resilient-Integrity | Integrity, Resilience | Response to External Pressures – Force-based | Courageous boundary-setting informed by prudence |
Resilient-Effectiveness | Coping (psychology), Self-efficacy | Resilience Architecture – Individual capacity | Effective action under stress; capacity-building |
Reciprocal-Boundaries | Boundaries, Mutual aid | Resilience Architecture – Social capacity | Mutual limit-setting and aid agreements |
Humble-Responsibility | Humility, Responsibility | Resilience Architecture – Structural awareness | Acting within systemic limits |
Flexibility (framework sense) | Psychological flexibility | Integration Dynamic | Calibration between autonomy and interdependence |
Clarity-Preservation | Decision fatigue, Metacognition | Integration Dynamic | Protecting clarity under processing load |
Selective-Availability | Selective attention, Information overload | Integration Dynamic | Intentionally limiting exposure to inputs |
Reciprocal-Empathy | Empathy, Reciprocity | Relationship Principles | Balanced giving/receiving of care |
Autonomous-Discernment | Autonomy, Discernment | Relationship Principles | Preserving independent judgment in relationships |
Examined-Courage | Courage, Prudence | Response Process – Initiation | Truth-seeking, reflective courage |
Compassionate-Patience | Compassion, Patience | Response Process – Perseverance | Endurance guided by empathy |
Sovereign-Agency | Autonomy, Human agency | Goals – Agency | Self-directed action incl. choosing not to act |
Receptive-Efficacy | Self-efficacy, Openness to experience | Goals – Adaptability | Effectiveness through adaptive receptivity |