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

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It’s the perfect example of one of those buzzy kinds of words that you know what it’s trying to say, while still finding it quite difficult to explain.

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But what bosses often do is say, ‘We’ve arranged a burnout seminar, a resilience seminar, a webinar that you can dial into’. So, you know, to sort of to tie this all up in a bow, it’s like whenever we’re sitting there thinking, does resilience exist and then we see it manifested by other people, it’s normally because they feel a sense that we’re all in this together. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. Having a strong sense of identity is a powerfully enabling quality which allows us to cope in situations which may seem intimidating or impossible to others.When I’ve finished the campaign for this book, I’ll update it again with everything I’ve learned from there. So that point about resilience or fortitude at work, what’s interesting is that after pushing back on the narrative of ‘you just need to be more resilient’, you do actually say, and there are things that you can do to increase your resilience, your fortitude. You know, what you actually find is when you delve into childhood negative experience, it serves to demolish a person’s sense of self, you know, it shatters their self image. For more, join the Book Club community and read the lastest and greatest non-ficition books with us. The author takes readers on a journey through his childhood, his time at Cambridge, and his travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

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. But the London parts of Fortitude begin in the 1890s, so as well as recreating his own early successes from the Edwardian period, Walpole also does a nice job of recreating the society that was withdrawing the hem of its garments from The Yellow Book, ten years earlier. It is a ridiculous scene to today’s sensibilities because it seems so much like the pious excesses of martyrdom more familiar from nearly a hundred years earlier in Tom Brown’s Schooldays.And I love it because, while superficially it’s frothy and it’s got silly people dancing, and it’s actually, although I am obsessed with people who can do shuffle dances and, that would be one of my ambitions to do that, but… it’s also like, you know, I’ve witnessed people doing TikToks about scientific papers. Alison Jones: It’s so funny, there is a PhD somewhere in how lockdown impacted people’s writing practice and the gestation of books.

So I love TikTok and in fact, I’ve got a lot more TikToks coming, but I didn’t want to do them too far ahead of the book coming out. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.And certainly, you know, I found that I had thoughts in my head that I was trying to be able to communicate and having them down on paper forces you to firstly, try to make an argument coherent.