And I’m not dissing it because it’s a really very big topic, but it’s quite a contaminated word now, isn’t it? And I think understanding that resilience isn’t this magical individualistic thing, it’s this collective thing. Dan combines real-world experience with a command of America's philosophical roots, and he reminds us that what made America great still beats in the breasts of those who continue to fight for a culture of liberty. With Tom Daley, Andy Murray, Linford Christie and Mo Farrah as examples, he continued: “What you discover is, the vehicle that tends to work there is, people like Kelly Holmes say, ‘Sport became my identity,’ and they channel their energy, sometimes to an excessive extent. And so, you know, I put all of my learning into that and you know, the book process, when you get… there’s something lovely when someone you don’t know, you’ve never met, in a completely different part of the country, contact you and say something.

And that afterwards the protagonist in the book—and it was a very complex and long book—went to London and got involved in London with a girl of a lower class.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. And, you know, so Mo Farah, most recently the news has told us that Mo Farah was a victim of modern slavery. As with personal control, a sense of identity can have implications for physical and psychological health.

There’s that resilient word again, the resilient word, which is pretty much saying you’ll be alright, we’re doing nothing.His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. And I sort of reached the stage where I’d been in tech firms for a long time, and certainly West Coast tech firms, you spend a lot of the back end of the day, you know, the hours up till midnight in communication with people in San Francisco and like, this is exhausting. So, you know, they don’t necessarily have this sort of hatred-driven disdain for other teams, at least to the same extent.