And there’s a really, it’s contaminated the word, because you’re right, there is something really, really pure and important about resilience, but the fact that it’s being used in that really cynical way devalues it. People are cynical about resilience because there’s the overuse and the fact that it doesn’t seem to be working because we’ve talked a lot about it so much and here we still are, but there’s also, and I thought you made this point brilliantly in the book and I hadn’t… I think I’d intuited it before, but I hadn’t articulated it. Bruce Daisley: So bored with resilience and you’re like, oh, but look, I’m attempting to demystify what we get wrong about it.

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.Bruce Daisley: And you know, and one of the things that people think is they think that there’s like this meritocratic hierarchy of books, that the best books will all find their way and you’ll reach the natural level. In a nutshell, we follow Peter, the imaginative child of a toxic home who absorbs what little strength he has from the kindness of a local farmer.

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's essentially about escaping the downward pull of a dark childhood and emerging not into happiness, but into light.

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. Walpole wrote horror novels that tended more towards the psychological rather than supernatural, with a brooding underlying mysticism. Along the way we take in TikTok, Elon Musk, the tombstone aesthetic, and why the platform you build for your book is at least as important as the book itself.But what bosses often do is say, ‘We’ve arranged a burnout seminar, a resilience seminar, a webinar that you can dial into’. So the reason why I use that synonym, fortitude, is because there is a weariness and, you know, look, if you go into LinkedIn, there’s no shortage of people offering you resilience courses, slides of how to be resilient. He continued: “Jurgen Klopp seems to know that resilience is the strength that we draw from each other.

The most powerful effect of that book—because I never again picked a fight—it caused me for the first time in my life to sit down and to examine myself in terms of strengths and weaknesses. His first book, The Joy of Work, was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into sixteen languages. And look, you know, the lesson that we’ve got of all of these things is that quite often we embrace the excitement, the possibility, the democratizing form that they take. He is also a regular on the conference circuit, addressing business leaders on the main stage of the CBI Annual Conference in 2017, and at that year’s Management Today annual summit and Financial Times 125 Club, as well as at many tech industry events around Europe.

At work I was part of gathering community feedback on a corporate document and one of the things we heard quite a lot was issues with the word ‘resilient’. His home life is more interesting, since he boards at Brockett’s, a boarding house full of poor and quaint characters. A fascinating and important pushback against the narrow, joy-eroding version of 'resilience' that would leave us to