Ep 139. Sisu: The Finnish Art of Courage with Joanna Nylund

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Kelli Walker

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4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Join Kelli and guest Joanna Nylund as they chat about Sisu, a Finnish concept about courage in the face of adversity. Spoiler alert: Sisu isn't just for the Finns, it's accessible (and cultivatable) to all humans!

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0:00.0	Hey, guys, welcome to not another anxiety show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me today is guest, Joanna Nyland. Hi, Joanna. Hi, Kelly. Thanks so much for taking time to a hop on the
0:23.3	show today. And thank you for having me. I'm really pleased. Great. Now do you mind telling us
0:29.2	a little bit more about yourself, especially your recent publication? Oh, sure. Yeah. So my name is Joanna Nyland, and I'm a journalist slash
0:41.8	translator and writer and photographer doing a little bit of everything. I live in Helsinki in Finland,
0:48.9	I'm married to Johnny, who's a teacher. And I do quite a bit of my journalistic work in English because I studied
0:57.4	English literature at university and I work for a few publications in the UK and also some magazines
1:04.2	in Finland. And now, that's my most recent project, I've written a book about this Finnish
1:10.7	phenomenon that we have that's called
1:12.5	Sisu, and the book is called Sisu, the Finnish Art of Courage. And basically, it's sort of
1:19.9	serves as an introduction to the whole concept, but maybe also a little bit to Finland and to
1:25.2	Finns and how we think. Yeah. So in short. And, you know, I just
1:33.0	recently learned about Sisu. I came across it in a BBC article about a month ago. And I thought
1:40.2	it was incredibly interesting, no doubt applicable to those of us working through
1:44.8	anxiety.
1:45.5	So I just started Googling for Sisu experts and happened to find you.
1:50.6	Got to thank the internet for that, right?
1:52.6	Yeah, that's great.
1:54.2	That's really cool.
1:54.9	And, you know, I guess my first question in reading about Sisu is, is it a concept, a philosophy, a verb? What is it?
2:06.6	What is Sissu? Well, it's kind of all things rolled into one, but I would say it's a concept,
2:12.6	first and foremost, and it's something that's been part of the Finnish language for at least 500 years as an idea.
2:20.3	And it stands for a whole cluster of different traits, just like courage and determination and resilience.
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