id: 1161,4A
title: Resilience is the ability to remain unchanged or restore oneself after distortion.
date: 2022-03-01

Resilience is the ability to remain unchanged or restore oneself after distortion.

It is the opposite of rigid and brittle. Meta-resilience comes in when one part of a system can restore another part, which is the premise of self-organization. Resilience may be lost when optimizing a system, but devaluing its fallback mechanisms. Balancing feedback loops are a major component in resilience.rM3

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    Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright, Thinking in Systems: A Primer (White River Junction, Vt: Chelsea Green Pub, 2008). (See notes.)