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

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And so, when he went to college, he was meeting fellow black students, he felt no connection with them. But just bringing people back on a random day of the week, just to look in your screen so that you can all be at the same place, but in a virtual meeting with some people that aren't in the same place, that doesn't really work. They seemed to smoke, they seemed to drink, and it was almost like the experiences they had seemed to be somehow directing them into these adaptive behaviours, where they're smoking and drinking, almost to self-medicate out of it. He said: “They identified a group of gold-winning, retired British olympians… These are household names…. And secondly, when we do see our own identities reflected in other people, so, "You and I have just been through this experience", we might talk about this building that collapsed around us more than anyone who knows us would ever want to listen to.

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Having a sense of community, either through unity or shared experience, is extraordinarily influential for how well we can recover from challenges and trauma.

They will have really grown their grit through no choice of their own, because of their very difficult life circumstances.

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Helen Tupper: It's actually really interesting listening to you saying that, because I had in my mind, "Is there a bit of a tension between control and community in the workplace? Bruce Daisley: But there's an article out meeting-free days, and it's worth reading, because companies introduced meeting-free days, and 70 organisations did it, they had to have at least 1,000 employees, so these weren't small, cottage industries.

I'm actually, rather than someone who was sent here by my family and have formed a new life here, my dad's died, my mum effectively sold me into modern slavery, and I came here as a domestic servant. So, I think they're probably two quite big questions, but community and fortitude, let's explore that so other people can learn about it. Fortitude provides a refreshing approach to resilience which centres around human connection and the power of collaboration. An audacious reframing of responsibility that seems to have acted as a template for big business over the subsequent two decades.