resilience
Resilience, a series for Waking Up
Resilience is a 12-part lecture series by Amanda Knox recorded for Sam Harris's Waking Up meditation app. Follow the link above for a free trial, or request a free subscription, and Waking Up will provide you one with no questions asked.
In 2007, a 20-year old Amanda Knox, studying abroad in Italy, was accused and convicted of a murder she didn’t commit. She was abused by the police, mistreated by prison guards, and painted by the media in headlines around the world as a sex-crazed, villainous killer: “Foxy Knoxy.” She spent nearly four years in prison, until she was acquitted—only to be again tried and convicted again for the same crime. Finally, in 2015, Amanda was exonerated once and for all. Now, in Resilience, Amanda—an author, journalist, advocate, and fellow Waking Up member—shares the practices and traditions she’s turned to over the years to discover a deeper, more enduring wellspring of equanimity and strength.
Resilience is a 12-part lecture series by Amanda Knox recorded for Sam Harris's Waking Up meditation app. Follow the link above for a free trial, or request a free subscription, and Waking Up will provide you one with no questions asked.
In 2007, a 20-year old Amanda Knox, studying abroad in Italy, was accused and convicted of a murder she didn’t commit. She was abused by the police, mistreated by prison guards, and painted by the media in headlines around the world as a sex-crazed, villainous killer: “Foxy Knoxy.” She spent nearly four years in prison, until she was acquitted—only to be again tried and convicted again for the same crime. Finally, in 2015, Amanda was exonerated once and for all. Now, in Resilience, Amanda—an author, journalist, advocate, and fellow Waking Up member—shares the practices and traditions she’s turned to over the years to discover a deeper, more enduring wellspring of equanimity and strength.
“We all lose. We all get broken. We all face setbacks. But we’re more than able to pick ourselves up.” By employing tools like mindfulness, Stoicism, and other frameworks and philosophies, Amanda says, each of us can find psychological freedom in the midst of adversity and, ultimately, “become better than we were before—more than the sum of our shattered parts.”