The Buddhist And The Neuroscientist

Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic: Health
Sat, 07/04/2015 - 5:00am

In 1992, the neuroscientist Richard Davidson got a challenge from the Dalai Lama. By that point, he’d spent his career asking why people respond to, in his words, “life’s slings and arrows” in different ways. Why are some people more resilient than others in the face of tragedy? And is resilience something you can gain through practice?

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