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

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Could we explore each of them in turn, starting with control, which again when I was reading that, I consider one of my primary values to be freedom, and I was like, "Well, is it freedom, Helen; or is it actually a need for control, based on what you talk about in the chapter about it?

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Sarah Ellis: It's on my "must-read newsletter" list, of which there are lots of newsletters, but it's probably the one that I always make time for, but it's also definitely the one that I recommend the most to other people. So, if we find ourselves with no control, it has I think this dominating, holistic experience over us. Bruce’s book “ The Joy of Work” (Penguin Random House) – on improving workplace culture – was the bestselling business hardback of 2019 and came runner-up as CMI Management Book of the Year.But the fact that they've got something different makes them really stand out far more than maybe they would in any other way.

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Whereas, sometimes we can get so consumed with, "Okay, well everyone's doing this and I've got to do this". It also shows why teaching skills like how to embrace a growth mindset, reflective thinking and investing in wellbeing, while beneficial, may not substantially increase resilience in staff if they don’t also feel respected, listened to, and trusted to deliver or part of a shared effort to achieve a goal.

Bruce Daisley: Let's imagine a scenario where someone listening to this is maybe not feeling resilient, and one of the things that probably will inform that is that they open their calendar, either on a Monday morning, and it's back-to-back meetings; or maybe, they open it up on Sunday night, and it's back-to-back meetings. In a very similar way, marketing as an industry has responded to a need, and tried to synthesise a product that answers the need, and you can see it very clearly. But what you discover is, once you know this ACE score, once you catalogue someone's experience of adversity, of trauma really, it's got a remarkable correlation with life outcomes. But actually, your point is, you can still work in a way that works for you, but what we need is, community is not just being in the same room together, it's having a reason to be in the same room together that's worth it and better because of that. This was interesting on the critical view and perspective of resilient literature or rather the myth we are fed about resilience these days.

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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. Bruce Daisley: Well for me, they're broadly synonymous, in the sense that I'm trying to say that resilience is a capacity to reenergise, to bounce back, to deal with unpredictability and uncertainty. It follows the remarkable success of his debut title, The Joy of Work , which was a Sunday Times number one business bestseller in spring 2019.It’s the strength that other people embolden in us, and so, he was like, ‘We need to arrange more team events. To see Bruce in action, join him and an incredible lineup of speakers at Bloomfest 2022 on 30th November.

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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. She loved going to the theatre, she's got twins, but she was just always, it's not about a work-life balance, it's something more than that.And so, you look at these things and you go, "Wow, firstly we've got an incredible aggregation of data going on here", Mo Farah and, let's say, Linford Christie, Kelly Holmes, Andy Murray, all of these people who've experienced significant trauma and have gone on to be elite athletes; there seems to be something that propels people who've got an incredible gift into what they can accomplish. 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? So, there seems to be this remarkable thing where trauma, firstly it seems to be this interesting common factor of people who achieve elite things. We see really consistent examples of firstly, people draw a strength from a crowd, they draw a strength from feeling connected to strangers around them. This interesting book lifts the cover on the resilience myth that we've all been sold, and shines a light on how and why resilience is not what we think it is, and not what we should aspire towards.