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  • Published: 10 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781847943675
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $35.00

Fortitude

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



The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the true secrets of inner strength

'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'

'It hooked me right in . . . A fantastic book.' Chis Evans

'Entertaining. Engaging. Educating.' Professor Damian Hughes, co-host of the 'High Performance' podcast
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Resilience is the buzzword of the moment. We're told that if we have it, our lives will be happy and successful ones. If we don't, we need to acquire it. But what if the version of resilience we've been peddled is a myth?

Here, Sunday Times bestselling author Bruce Daisley demolishes a concept that has spawned a multi-million pound industry of books, workshops and courses, exposing the highly questionable science it rests on. In its place he outlines a very different approach to good mental health that embraces the latest science and research. Offering empirically tested advice, Fortitude sets out a practical path to greater self-confidence and courage for us all.

  • Published: 10 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781847943675
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $35.00

About the author

Bruce Daisley

Bruce Daisley is European Vice-President for Twitter and host of the UK’s number one business podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat. 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. He has been one of the Evening Standard’s 1,000 Most Influential Londoners for four years and is one of Debrett’s 500 Most Influential People in Britain. Campaign magazine asserted that Bruce is ‘one of the most talented people in media’.

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Praise for Fortitude

A much needed book that unfolds the surprising secrets of resilience. 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

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'

A fascinating analysis of resilience - what it is, what is isn't and why, when we develop it together, it becomes something better and more important, fortitude. It seems that resilience is a team game.

Alastair Campbell

Entertaining. Engaging. Educating. Three words that sum up this cracking read, which offers a timely - and much needed - challenge to the traditional definition on resilience.

Professor Damian Hughes, co-host of the 'High Performance' podcast

Fortitude explores and validates what most of us who work with people feel in our gut when it comes to debunking doctrine about resilience and singular toughness. A fantastic contribution.

Dr Pippa Grange, author of 'Fearless', former Head of People & Team Development at The Football Association

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

Is "resilience" more than blaming victims and telling them they need to act stronger? This wonderful book is Bruce Daisley's personal quest - through his personal experiences and his appetite for digesting rigorous research - to learn about the overused concept of resilience. What Bruce learns is intriguing and important, and hopefully will help us become better parents, leaders, and friends.

Professor Daniel Cable, author of 'Alive at Work'

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'

A riveting read - Fortitude lifts the lid on the orthodoxy of Resilience and shows us where true strength lies. Fortitude is a tour de force.

Julia Hobsbawm, author of 'The Nowhere Office'

A book that confirms what I've always believed, that we can't be resilient on our own. In fact resilience is about all of us being stronger than any of us.

Gary Lineker

One of the UK's leading "workfluencers" [offers] up ahead-of-the-curve takes on the future of workplace cultures . . . Fortitude is an easy to read and well-research book that will appeal to anyone . . . Daisley challenges some of the empowerment narratives that have become unquestioned staples of organisational life . . . [and] offers "fortitude" as an alternative.

Financial Times

A fascinating and important pushback against the narrow, joy-eroding version of 'resilience' that would leave us to sink or swim alone, Fortitude is an indispensable guide to a more energising, human, and effective approach to working and thriving in a post-pandemic world.

Oliver Burkeman, author of 'Four Thousand Weeks'

I love it . . . it hooked me right in . . . A fantastic book.

Chris Evans

An absolute revelation . . . It's with collective support that you can develop resilience. Your own resilience or individual fortitude is not something you do or don't have, it comes from the extent to which you are supported by others. The extent to which people face these issues of resilience is massively divined by the structural inequalities we face.

Ed Miliband

Fantastic

Geoff Lloyd