Sakshi Education
By Srirangam Sriram, Sriram's IAS, New Delhi.
(a) Resilience
Psychologists define resilience as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress—such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors. As much as resilience involves bouncing back from these difficult experiences, it can also involve profound personal growth.
Resilience helps in meeting challenges successfully. It is so at the personal, organisational, national and planetary levels. It requires the ability to learn, be evidence-driven in one’s approach and be open to collaborate for good results. For the one who is resilient, endurance and optimism levels are high. Resilience is being called into action in the multiple stresses that the pandemic in 2020 has created.
(b) Temperance
It is defined as moderation or voluntary self-restraint. This includes restraint from arrogance by practicing humility and modesty, restraint from excesses such as extravagant luxury or or austerity by practicing prudence, and restraint from rage or craving by practicing calmness and self-control.
Temperance has been described as a virtue by religious thinkers, philosophers, and more recently, psychologists, particularly in the positive psychology movement. It has a long history in philosophical and religious thought.
Temperance is one of the six virtues in the positive psychology classification, included with wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, and transcendence. It is generally characterized as the control over excess, and expressed through characteristics such as modesty, humility, self-regulation, hospitality, decorum, abstinence, forgiveness and mercy; each of these involves restraining an excess of some impulse, such as vanity.
It is an essential attribute of all socially desirable personalities. Needless to say, civil servants need to have temperance in their personalities.
Psychologists define resilience as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress—such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors. As much as resilience involves bouncing back from these difficult experiences, it can also involve profound personal growth.
Resilience helps in meeting challenges successfully. It is so at the personal, organisational, national and planetary levels. It requires the ability to learn, be evidence-driven in one’s approach and be open to collaborate for good results. For the one who is resilient, endurance and optimism levels are high. Resilience is being called into action in the multiple stresses that the pandemic in 2020 has created.
(b) Temperance
It is defined as moderation or voluntary self-restraint. This includes restraint from arrogance by practicing humility and modesty, restraint from excesses such as extravagant luxury or or austerity by practicing prudence, and restraint from rage or craving by practicing calmness and self-control.
Temperance has been described as a virtue by religious thinkers, philosophers, and more recently, psychologists, particularly in the positive psychology movement. It has a long history in philosophical and religious thought.
Temperance is one of the six virtues in the positive psychology classification, included with wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, and transcendence. It is generally characterized as the control over excess, and expressed through characteristics such as modesty, humility, self-regulation, hospitality, decorum, abstinence, forgiveness and mercy; each of these involves restraining an excess of some impulse, such as vanity.
It is an essential attribute of all socially desirable personalities. Needless to say, civil servants need to have temperance in their personalities.
Published date : 06 Jan 2021 12:48PM
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