Sarah Ellis: So, it's interesting, as somebody who is a 0, so Helen and I, I think, read Fortitude through a very different lens and had a very different response and reaction to it, and I think partly because of that. It was like, we connected with different parts of the book, which also shows I think it's useful for everyone in different ways; because one of the things, one of the assumptions I was making as I read the early part of the book is, "Okay, some of these people who've got high ACE scores, crikey, they're going to have a lot of grit. They will have really grown their grit through no choice of their own, because of their very difficult life circumstances. Maybe that meant they've got a load of grit and a real growth mindset, and had to learn to be positive, and maybe that's helped them to be successful". An audacious reframing of responsibility that seems to have acted as a template for big business over the subsequent two decades. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. He has been rated as the top leader in the UK tech sector by Campaign Magazine. In a prestigious survey of CEOs and MDs, in 2020 Bruce was again named the “ Fantasy Hire” that most leaders would like to make – his fourth time of winning the accolade (other names placed included Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Martin Sorrell). He regularly ranks as the top-rated speaker at conferences in the US and the UK. Surprising and challenging. Fortitude encouraged me to re-think not only my work but how I live my life. Sarah Ellis, co-author of 'The Squiggly Career'

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Bruce Daisley: Okay! Well, normally when any of us think about the most meaningful moments that we've experienced, or the most meaningful accomplishments in a job, they're generally not, "I did this on my own". It's normally, they've got a degree of simcha to them. So, it might be the celebration of something big you did, or the recognition you got for something big you did, rather than the mere act of accomplishing it. As soon as you recognise that you go, "Oh, okay, I really recognise that". The Blitz spirit is a good illustration of it, "I'm no longer this Financial-Times-reading, bowler-hat-wearing businessman, I'm now adjacent to this person who's next to me on this street. We've got this new shared identity which is, we're bomb blast survivors", or you know, remarkable things in the testimony of survivors of 9/11. And one woman says really vividly, "Everyone who was on the streets on 9/11 had a calm to them, had a community, a sort of sorority, a brotherhood, where they were buying things for each other, they were doing things for each other. I think the most critical thing for work right now is that a lot of us have thought, the amount of organisations I've chatted to who say, "We've got this policy of three days a week or two days a week", and then when you chat to the workers, they're like, "Well, we're not doing those days". So many firms are really struggling to get people to come in the amount of days they want, and it's the wrong focus, to some extent. The focus needs to be, "How do we make people feel like they're part of something?" That might be one day a month, two days a month, where there's something meaningful, where you're sharing ideas together, where people feel like their voice is being heard, where you're talking about the plan for the next quarter, and everyone feels like, "My idea's up on the board". Those things are far more meaningful for us, feeling like we're all in this together. What you discover is that UK Sport did this remarkable piece of work, and this is what I couldn't get out of my head, that studied 16 British super-elite athletes, and they say all of them household names. All of them, of the ones they studied, all of them had a significant moment of childhood trauma. To just emphasise that that's not universal, the ones that they compared them to, who were the silver medallists, the bronze medallists, the people who did well but not quite win gold, only one in four of them had a moment of significant trauma.

In this light an expectation of resilience is no longer the spellbinding final act of a story, it is something akin to victim blaming. This is a truly refreshing, captivating and important book that shifted my perception on a topic I thought I knew! A must read.' Steven Bartlett, entrepreneur and host of 'The Diary of a CEO' Bruce Daisley: It might make our skin feel better and look better, but there is nothing whatsoever that reverses the impact of aging. 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. 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?" 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. And the one thing that was really interesting about him, when he was at his last club, a club in Germany, he told the people organised it, ‘We’ve got to move from this sense of me to this sense of we.’ Really interesting."

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The event was hosted by a brilliant organisation called Radix Big Tent. Radix Big Trent gives a platform for non-partisan conversations about big policy issues, giving a voice to people and places. It provokes and promotes new conversations about the regeneration and renewal of our society in a non-partisan way, inspiring practical actions which demonstrate the value of political intervention and delivering real change in left behind areas. Then you're like, "Okay, what are the little steps along the way doing that that aren't that?" and that's why these people who do the illustrations in their book, or they're often simple things. And the moment you see it, you go, "Oh yeah, of course, that's obvious". None of these things feel like someone's invented the iPhone, they're not genius flashes of inspiration. So, all I would think is, are there little things that you could do that probably are your strength, or something that's a bit more you, that might enable you to show you as a real person. The explosion, only superseded by those that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was powerful enough to shake the windows in Cyprus, 150 miles across the Mediterranean. Deeply thoughtful, provocative and insightful Fortitude will push you to question assumptions, think again about your life narrative and probably care more about your friends and community. Professor Lynda Gratton There was a widespread expectation that this would be the moment that inspired a programme of international support. ‘The world has to help us now,’ more than one person said to me.Entertaining. Engaging. Educating.' Professor Damian Hughes, co-host of the 'High Performance' podcast Increasingly a boss might get on the phone to commission resilience training, but the weary workforce sees corporate gaslighting. Something I never knew I needed to read but I'm so glad I did, its opened up a whole angle of thinking.' Nadiya Hussain