The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body

I felt like a mildly famous, unwashed, niche sporting celebrity who’d fallen out of a biscuit tin.

it felt elite and looked prestigious as performance and cutting-edge technology were fused with grandeur and tradition.

central to any adventure is camaraderie and the science of a smile.

You might have to learn to fight or dance when tackling an external force. But that force might be totally unpredictable: some days you might need your dancing shoes, whereas on others you might have to wear your boxing gloves. For things you cannot change, adopt a noble spirit, bear up bravely, and tune in to nature’s will.

it’s not about learning a lesson, it’s about practising a lesson.

‘Marathon runners have a reduced experience of pain compared with non-runners,’

What bad habit did I curb today? How am I better? Were my actions just? How can I improve?

Edison told his 24-year-old son, ‘Go get your mother and all her friends. They’ll never see a fire like this again.’

‘You cannot continue to swim like this, taking out your anger on the sea. You know this.

The ancient stoics believed we might become physically vulnerable and are often at the mercy of external events that are outside of our control (the Uncontrollables), but that our inner domain (the Controllables) cannot be conquered without our consent.