Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Resilience is often treated as something you either have or you don’t. But what if it’s something the brain and body can keep learning?
In the season finale of TEDMED Now, Kelly Thomas brings together lessons from Diana Nyad, Sian Beilock, Judson Brewer, A.J. Jacobs, and Kate Bowler to uncover five different paths through what is hard.
From practicing under pressure and getting curious about our habits to protecting joy and letting other people help carry what we cannot control, their stories reveal a larger process of adaptation unfolding through practice, attention, reward, meaning, and connection.
And there may be no single formula for resilience because there was never a single way into it.
Full show notes and more at TEDMED.com (tedmed.com/tedmed-now/what-is-resilience-made-of/)
Resilience is often treated as something you either have or you don’t. But what if it’s something the brain and body can keep learning?
In the season finale of TEDMED Now, Kelly Thomas brings together lessons from Diana Nyad, Sian Beilock, Judson Brewer, A.J. Jacobs, and Kate Bowler to uncover five different paths through what is hard.
From practicing under pressure and getting curious about our habits to protecting joy and letting other people help carry what we cannot control, their stories reveal a larger process of adaptation unfolding through practice, attention, reward, meaning, and connection.
And there may be no single formula for resilience because there was never a single way into it.
Full show notes and more at TEDMED.com (tedmed.com/tedmed-now/what-is-resilience-made-of/)
