Building Resilience & Growth

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Mechanism & Guiding Principle

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1. Primary Stress Regulators

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Reciprocal-Empathy
    • Justice ← Prudence
    • Offer and receive Empathy voluntarily
    • Receiving support preserves capacity for reciprocity
  • Autonomous-Discernment

8. Response Process

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  • 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

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  • 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

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This 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