Pundits have chosen the word of the year to reflect how we have faced pandemic stress. What is it and why it even matters in terms of our mental health.
,” was a reaction to word picks by Collins Dictionary and other outlets such as Merriam-Webster and Oxford English Dictionary, who chose other predestined words such asAs we mark the close of another challenging year, I love Huffington’s choice for 2021. Many other word-of-the-year names such as the Oxford English Dictionary selected a word that connotes negative aspects of the previous twelve months.
Resilience+ is the on-demand feature we all need in the new year,” Huffington said. “2021 was the year we watched the pandemic go from something we thought and hoped would have a defined end to, at best, an endemic that will always be part of our lives. And our thinking about resilience is evolving in the same way. Resilience is not, as so many of us thought in the early days of the pandemic, an end state we can reach. It’s a constant process of becoming.
You might be wondering, “What does it matter what the word of the year is,” but it’s not insignificant. The words we use matter. They create a mindset that influence worker engagement, productivity and the company’s bottom line. When the American workforce has hope, feels cared about by higher-ups and has enthusiasm about their role in the workplace, the company’s bottom line automatically goes up.
The human mind is hardwired to focus on the obstacle for survival purposes. So it’s not surprising that this “negativity bias,” as neuroscientists call it, is reflected in the word chose by Merriam Webster’s 2021 word of the year: “vaccine.” And the Oxford English Dictionary’s choice is “vax.” But as Huffington wisely suggests, “Resilience+ is both our vaccine and our booster for life.
essential for our physical immunity, a daily process of strengthening our resilience is essential for our emotional and mental immunity.”
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