In this chapter, I examine polyrhythmicity and its significance for everyday experience, especially social interactions and personal resilience. Polyrhythmicity—the superimposition of different rhythms—is a musical concept that resounds strongly in everyday life. The superimposition of different activities allows for new and enriched experiences but, by the same token, asks for a certain temporal robustness, that is, for individual and social resilience for the sake of avoiding inundation by too much novelty or lethargy through monotonous repetition. Only a balance or harmony between both, novelty and repetition, makes things feel ‘intact’. However, there is no universal quantitative measure for the optimal balance, as the appreciation of novelty versus repetition usually varies from person to person and group to group. I go on to describe prudence as a general means to stabilise temporal balances, and meditation and irony as methods that can help to engage with different rhythms and open up new horizons of perception. While meditation aims to experience an expanded present, irony enables a playful insinuation of tensions between harmony and dissonance. This chapter advocates a sensible and conscious integration of repetition and novelty to harmonise individual and social rhythms.