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Mental toughness is a measure of individual psychological resilience and confidence that may predict success in sport, education, and in the workplace. [1] The concept emerged in the context of sports training and sports psychology, as one of a set of attributes that allow a person to become a better athlete and able to cope with difficult training and difficult competitive situations and ...
Image credits: David Field #3. During my teenage years, I would travel often to my native place of Chennai, India. It would mostly be a regular family visit to meet my ageing maternal grandparents.
His best friend was an alleged murderer who had been deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial. As he had to do with others, Peterson was made to hold his friend down for shock treatments. But the friend understood Peterson’s dilemma, and he would serve as Peterson’s bodyguard against the nightly threat of attacks.
Psychological resilience, or mental resilience, is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. [1]The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner as she conducted a forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children who came from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.
1. “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” — L.M. Montgomery 2. “People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”
Oceanographer and conservationist Sylvia Earle of Mission Blue keeps a grueling schedule. Here are the habits that help boost her outsize strength and stamina.
Edith Eger is the youngest daughter of Lajos (a tailor) and Ilona Elefánt born in Košice, Czechoslovakia. [3] [1]Eger attended gymnasium and took ballet lessons. She was a member of the Hungarian Olympic gymnastics team.
The industry has a long history of not wanting to pay for mental health services, too often covering them only when required to do so. Up until about a decade ago, strict limits on treatments were the norm; only a relatively small number of therapy visits were covered per year. The financial incentives are still out of whack today.