Fortitude: The Myth of Resilience, and the Secrets of Inner Strength: A Sunday Times Bestseller

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Of course this is only what I wanted at the end, probably not what the auhtor intended to be included at the end. I think that, for me, it comes from the fact that I think the US -- my partner's American, I'm not criticising the US; the US is very fixated on individualistic cures, "What can I prescribe for this person that will solve their problem?" And the solution broadly, resilience is a collectivist solution, it's about feeling connected to other people. And sometimes that's an inconvenient answer for people to hear. Something I never knew I needed to read but I'm so glad I did, its opened up a whole angle of thinking.' Nadiya Hussain

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Is "resilience" more than blaming victims and telling them they need to act stronger? This wonderful book is Bruce Daisley's personal quest - through his personal experiences and his appetite for digesting rigorous research - to learn about the overused concept of resilience. What Bruce learns is intriguing and important, and hopefully will help us become better parents, leaders, and friends. Professor Daniel Cable, author of 'Alive at Work'

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An absolute revelation . . . It's with collective support that you can develop resilience. Your own resilience or individual fortitude is not something you do or don't have, it comes from the extent to which you are supported by others. The extent to which people face these issues of resilience is massively divined by the structural inequalities we face. Ed Miliband Speaking about identity, the best-selling writer said. “When people can’t assemble an identity, when their life story is just this random assembly of events, that’s when they really struggle to connect with their identity.”

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This is a truly refreshing, captivating and important book that shifted my perception on a topic I thought I knew! A must read. Steven Bartlett, entrepreneur and host of 'The Diary of a CEO'

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A fascinating analysis of resilience - what it is, what is isn't and why, when we develop it together, it becomes something better and more important, fortitude. It seems that resilience is a team game. Alastair Campbell What he said is that, he gave me some stats that were astonishing. Anyone who'd been I think physically abused was nine times more likely, as a professional athlete, to take performance-enhancing drugs; and anyone who'd been sexually abused was about eight times more likely, and these are multiplicative. So, if someone has been physically and sexually abused, they're massively more likely to take performance-enhancing drugs. Sarah Ellis: So, just thinking a little bit about identity, and we've mentioned it already, but one of the things that we've talked about before on the podcast is this idea of enmeshment, which is essentially when your identity isn't distinct from your job, so the work you do becomes who you are. And, there's some real dangers to that, because with our blurred boundaries, and when we are all probably working longer than before, there's certainly no evidence that people are working shorter that I've seen, this feels like it continues to be a risk.

Bruce Daisley on misplaced notions of Fortitude Bloomfest 2022: Bruce Daisley on misplaced notions of Fortitude

The inference is that resilience is something individual, that some of us are blessed with and that others need to be schooled in. Now, thinking specifically about the moment we're in with work, there's this one common thing that runs across this sense of community, and it's a sense that we're all in it together. When we feel a sense that we're all in it together, it seems to be incredibly enriching. In fact, you can witness examples in society. When it looks like, during COVID we're all in it together, the Queen's sitting on her own at her husband's funeral; when we're all in it together, it seems like this is a collective effort. When we start seeing people who don't look like they're in it together with us, that's when we get affronted, when we get annoyed, frustrated that, "Why are they not doing it? Why is that family not doing it?" We feel it breaks this bond, the affinity we've got. I think sometimes we have the freedom, hopefully, to be able to do that, because we're a small company, but I do think there are levels of that. And even in really big companies, you have that ability as a manager to make a real difference in that area of choice and control. So, even as you were talking there, I was imagining, and I think sometimes this can actually be quite useful to do, "What would happen if Amazing If closed tomorrow?" and you're like, "Crikey, that's such a big part of my identity and who I am, and I now work with my best friend", and all of those kinds of things, "What would happen to our friendship? What would happen to how other people see me?", and you've got quite a public profile that people see. The two of these guys didn't know each other, but they encountered each other at a sort of learning lunch effectively, and they realised the adjacency of their work, and they created this list, which is called The Adverse Childhood Experiences list. So, it's a list of ten things. Some of them look remarkably gentle, which might be like, "Were you subject to emotional abuse? Were you subject to physical abuse? Was there parental divorce? Was there someone at home who went to jail? Did you live with addiction?" There's some other things there, some other things that you might go, "Is parental divorce that big an issue?" but actually, it very strongly correlates with adult obesity.

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So, I think I would say, I'd broadly categorise grit and growth mindset as the resilience orthodoxy. I think it's probably slightly unfair to growth mindset, because I think there is vaguely some substance to growth mindset, but it's not remotely the substance that is pedalled, offered and promoted. It's worth saying that people have really struggled with any degree of clinical desire to replicate the effect of growth mindset. In fact, pretty much the first model of growth mindset has been pedalled; I don't think there've been any replications of it. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. By calling for a resilient response we both gloss over the hardships that we hope individuals will recover from but also save ourselves having to ask if some of us are affected disproportionately by these injustices.