Resilience
The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. Months ago when we began working on this, our second annual Earth Issue, we lived in a state of relative pre-COVID-19 bliss – though I use the term ‘bliss’ loosely. Australia was still in the grip of a catastrophic bushfire season, the world had just lost Kobe, and while we were shooting our cover feature the nation’s east coast was battered by violent storms. On a personal level, I began this issue experiencing something of an existential crisis. I found myself hating the body I was in. According to my thinking, my arms weren’t big enough for me to be taken seriously as the editor of Men’s Health. My abs weren’t defined enough to justify my position in signing off on advice on how…