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

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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? I hear that from lots of people, that they don't really feel like they have any time for them, and I think this goes way beyond self-care, the sense of self. They compared them to people who went to the Olympics with Team GB but won a bronze, and what they found was, these super-elites, these gold medal-winners, 100 percent of them had experienced a significant moment of childhood trauma.

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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? Because it's being a bit more intentional about creating a moment that's got simcha, that's got a memorability to it, and I think that's where we need to get to. If we feel like we've chosen to do this longer shift, or we've done extra overtime because it's paying for a holiday, then it seems like our mind protects us a bit, it allows us to feel we are in control, we've chosen to do it. None of these things feel like someone's invented the iPhone, they're not genius flashes of inspiration. Martin Seligman, who's probably the most eminent psychologist in the world, he's the Robert De Niro of psychology, in the sense that he did some really good work at the start of his career, and he's done some not so good work at the end of his career, and he reports in his own book how he'd written some very lovely, popular psychology books, and the US Army and pretty much education authorities came to him and said, "If we gave you money, will you solve our issue?Fortitude provides a refreshing approach to resilience which centres around human connection and the power of collaboration. I found myself in Beirut in August 2020 when a catastrophic explosion ripped through the port area of the city. Bruce Daisley interviews psychologists, neuroscientists and work place experts to understand how we can improve our jobs.

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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. 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.He has become regarded as one the most respected thought leaders on the subject of workplace culture and the future of work.

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Next time you see someone who has been asked to show a resilient response, you might wonder why they found themselves knocked down in the first place. Chris and Bruce talked about Liverpool FC’s manager Jurgen Klopp, with the author of Fortitude saying: “People who don’t know anything about football, know that this smiling guy from the news just seems to be this beacon of warmth and radiance. She'd suffered parental abandonment, she'd suffered her mum's new partner died, she'd suffered all series of traumas, and I think people who've looked at it have said, actually this huge hole was excavated inside of her, this void, this sense that she felt -- the way that kids interpret things, they think, "This happened because of me.

Okay, that's really interesting, because like a skincare product, it's a charming, lovely idea, we build a routine around it, we've created something that seems in service of self-care; but if it doesn't work, there are fair questions to ask about that. I’ve really enjoyed it, especially how the chapters are organised and the storytelling element of each chapter, but I found it hard to read consistently. I got sent on my company’s resilience training and I don’t feel any better,’ one worker at a major technology company told me. The expectation of resilience was playing out right before my eyes, the assumption of recovery now looked like something more toxic.

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Increasingly a boss might get on the phone to commission resilience training, but the weary workforce sees corporate gaslighting.Bruce Daisley: Yeah, and I think we can see how identity is definitely a conflicted part of this, because for some of the people concerned, channelling everything into accomplishment for identity can prove enriching, but also incredibly endangering.