Key Insights on Resilience

Corporate resilience requires alternative supply chains and markets, combined with "nimbleness and agility" to respond to global shocks

• Your diet during pregnancy is 'calibrating things in your child' - setting metabolism, brain cell count, and disease resilience for life
• "This full-scale invasion has been the making of Ukraine as a nation" - Ben Hall on Ukraine's resilience
• Second Act succeeded because people want serious answers about late blooming, not just 'resilience and stamina' platitudes
• As Jocko says: 'Good' - pain and adversity are necessary teachers that modern comfort has eliminated
• GameStop crisis in early 2021 taught Sundheim resilience and led to fundamental changes in portfolio construction approach
• Zeno lost everything in a shipwreck and Seneca faced illness and exile, yet both used setbacks to build character through Stoic resilience
• Microsoft stock down 31% from highs, representing $1.2 trillion in lost market value despite broader market resilience

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