Africans' biological resilience to disease, once a strength, became a tool of exploitation during the transatlantic slave trade. Immunity marked them as “suitable” for forced labor. This dark irony reveals a deeper truth: individual strength is powerless against systemic power. History shows it’s not personal grit but collective action that endures. Perhaps we should stop striving to be superhuman and start striving to be super connected.

The modern narrative is very optimistic and full of pride: we are progressing, becoming more empathetic, more just. Empathy has become a moral buzzword, a marker of our supposed advancement. But what if this progress is more illusion than reality? What if we’ve simply mastered the art of hiding the truth?

Resilience is a concept that is intuitively understood but surprisingly difficult to measure. For the Earth as a system, the Planetary Boundaries Framework offers a relatively precise set of measures that help define resilience in environmental terms—essentially, how much pressure our planet can absorb before its vital systems are at risk. But when it comes to individuals, organizations, or even entire societies, no such commonly accepted measurement framework exists.

What if the problem isn’t that you're doing things wrong—or even doing the wrong things—but that you’re asking the wrong questions entirely?

"Every man carries Two Bags about with him, one in front and one behind, and both are packed full of faults. The Bag in front contains his neighbours’ faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

As the planet struggles to keep pace with our appetites, the true cost of our food choices is becoming impossible to ignore! Agriculture...

A friend wrote to me after reading a post about Marcus Aurelius : If only it was so easy to follow these principles. I find too often...

Addressing inequality is not just a matter of fairness but also resilience—societies with greater equality are often better equipped to...

Are the Terms Interchangeable? When the pressure’s on, do you grit your teeth and push through—or take a breath, pivot, and find a new...

Does a community need generational change to progress from one stage of development to another? After an article about innovation...

"Let's have some resilient fun" shows some important topics in a more relaxed and joyful way. After all, humour is quoted as a desirable...

Izabela Dłużyk was born blind in 1989, and despite all odds, she made it to the BBC 100 Women List in 2023. Over the weekend, I read an...

"Numbers That Matter: Simple Lessons for a Resilient Life!" Every number tells a story, and in this series, I dive into how those...

How was your 2024, great, good, bad? Year-end is, for many of us, the time when we look back at our goals, evaluate, make New Year’s...

More evidence and perspectives are emerging that challenge the 20th-century growth-driven economy.

Resilience & Flight: Lessons from the Cockpit: In this series, I explore how the principles of aviation can help us build resilience....

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a lecture and workshop led by Grzegorz Turniak, the legend of networking in Poland, at...

A simple solution to the global warming challenge would be to use less energy. However, this is not actually so simple because energy...

The Journey to the High-Income Club What a journey it has been! When I entered university in 1990, Poland's GDP per capita (expressed in...

I spent the last nine years in Switzerland, and it is a significant amount of time. After such a period, the place becomes a part of you....