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

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I’ve started doing TikTok about, I don’t know about six weeks ago because our social media manager has been nagging me to do it forever. So resilience appears to exist, but the term has been appropriated by people who are kind of trying to sell snake oil, people are trying to sort of pretend that they’re offering you this magic that exists elsewhere.

The concept of growth mindset and resilience programmes centre around a shared belief that resilience relies on the individual’s ability to mentally frame challenges – and that this is a skill which can be taught and learned. Talking with Chris about the subject of coming through trauma, Bruce spoke about a study regarding UK Sport, the organisation that puts Team GB competitors at the Olympics. And I’m not dissing it because it’s a really very big topic, but it’s quite a contaminated word now, isn’t it?You know, on average, the average worker is working three hours more a day than they were 15 years ago. I think I say in the book, never in the history of resilience has anyone been more resilient by being told to be more resilient.

And it’s like a big part of trying to deliver something that felt fresh, but maybe adjacent to what people have read elsewhere. Walpole wrote horror novels that tended more towards the psychological rather than supernatural, with a brooding underlying mysticism. Walpole was hugely popular in the 1920s and 1930s, but he was mocked in Somerset Maugham’s autobiographical novel Cakes and Ale in 1930, and apparently Walpole did not take criticism well. That sounds, it’s not supposed to be… it’s good, you feel like you’re with you, you feel like, what I feel like when I’m watching your TikToks is I’m just kind of walking alongside you chatting. And at that time I had a habit of going out and having a few drinks and picking a fight with somebody and beating him up.A fascinating and important pushback against the narrow, joy-eroding version of "resilience" that would leave us to sink or swim alone, Fortitude is an indispensable guide to a more energising, human, and effective approach to working and thriving in a post-pandemic world. He has been one of the Evening Standard’s 1,000 Most Influential Londoners for four years and is one of Debrett’s 500 Most Influential People in Britain.

But what bosses often do is say, ‘We’ve arranged a burnout seminar, a resilience seminar, a webinar that you can dial into’.Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Bruce Daisley is European Vice-President for Twitter and host of the UK’s number one business podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat. Drawn from many sources, including accounts by Hands themselves, these brief essays provide a fascinating insight into the lives of this small band of individuals, whose rank is unparalleled in religious history and who, in the words of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, 'have diffused widely the Divine Fragrances, declared His Proofs, proclaimed His Faith, published abroad His Law, detached themselves from all things but Him, stood for righteousness in this world, and kindled the Fire of the Love of God in the very hearts and souls of His servants'. A very presentable copy, with a previous owner's inscription inside front but otherwise free from any significant marks or creases throughout.

Through stories of personal responsibility and perseverance —with humor along the way — it gives young people the advice they need to be successful. And Sadism, as you know, is one of the great temptations for men, as I suppose Masochism might be for women. So it’s taking who we perceive ourselves to be, and then thinking, well, how does that enable us to connect with the people around us?

Yes, I think, you know, what you realize is there’s something I think is really helpful… Most recently I spoke to two women who wrote, Liz Fosslien and Mollie Duff I think is the other author, who wrote a book.