This is how you emerge stronger from crises

Dusseldorf First Corona, now war: Crises are the new normal. In view of these burdens, it is all the more difficult for people to simply carry on as before. More and more workers are also exhausted from the permanent crisis mode. Dealing with such stresses is not a separate research focus for nothing.

Steven Taylor is one of the world’s leading researchers on post-traumatic growth. He has spoken to ex-prison camp inmates about mental toughness. He has interviewed drug addicts who have gotten clean and people who have attempted suicide.

What they all have in common is that they have not been broken by their difficult fate, but have grown from it.

From this, says Taylor, psychology lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, we could learn in current times of crisis – also for jobs and careers. Behind his research is the scientific idea that people who experience intense trauma evolve and become mentally stronger.