Resilience and the Line Between Endurance and Breakdown in High Stress Work

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:02]It's good to be able to be resilient um so that you can endure a high level of stress, but when you go too far with that um it it just becomes foolishness.

[00:00:13]It's not wise because you're not treating yourself well and you're not enduring um at that point. You're not enduring because endurance implies, okay, I'm getting through this. I'm managing to still be mentally sharp, even though the stress is high. I'm managing to still be emotionally regulated even though I'm under a lot of pressure and there's a lot of hostility. That's just being a lawyer. Um, and and endurance means being able to flow with that, knowing the stress level is always going to be high, but that you're fit to deal with it. And it becomes breakdown, not endurance, when you are unable to regulate your emotions. Um when you are unable to keep your focus but you're continuing to work thinking you are focused because you've lost all perspective.