Chapter 8

Emotional resilience and well-being

The opening questions

  • What does ‘emotional resilience’ mean to you?
  • What is your response to failure?
  • Do you think you are currently coping with all the demands on your time?

The world won’t slow down, but you can

The world won’t slow down, but you can

The world continues to speed up. Timms (2018) offers a reminder that knowledge that once served for hundreds of years is now becoming obsolete faster. If you learned a new skill in the 1800s, that knowledge still would have been relevant by 1900, but learning a new skill in 2018 means you may be learning one that supersedes it within months. Not only that, but technology has enabled ...

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