A Friday Story: Harness Your Inner Sisu

A reluctant traveler heads to Finland, finds his inner sisu, and inspires the rest of us to discover our personal storehouses of fortitude, perseverance and chutzpah — and where they might take us.

Eugene Levy attempts to channel his “inner sisu” in the first episode of the new AppleTV+ series The Reluctant Traveler, set in Finland’s Arctic Lapland region.

“Curiosity,” the Irish novelist James Stephens said, “will conquer fear more than bravery will.”

Recently, I’ve been contemplating the connection between curiosity and bravery, an exploration une…