Nov 18, 2025 | Mental Toughness, Update
How to achieve self-awareness that translates into helping young people on their journey to being resilient and positive adults. Since the pandemic, AQR International has seen a growing demand globally from parents wishing to support their children, often in...
Sep 19, 2025 | Canada, Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
How mental toughness can be a significant factor in leading a longer and better life. Why is longevity rising on the agenda? The average age of a male born in my birth year, 1949, is 65.3 years – the same in North America. For a male born this year, 2025, life...
Sep 8, 2025 | Doug Strycharczyk, Education, Mental Toughness
Background The business school, based in mainland Europe, is an elite business school which was ranked in the top three schools worldwide in its field. The flagship programme was a Master’s programme which attracted academically elite students from around the...
Sep 1, 2025 | Mental Toughness
Background The programme was a joint project between the AHDS (Association of Heads and Deputy Heads in Scotland) and SCEL (Scottish College for Educational Leadership). The focus of the programme was to help Head Teachers and Deputy Head Teachers to deal more...
Jan 21, 2025 | Doug Strycharczyk, John Perry, Mental Toughness
Mental Toughness describes who you are and how you respond mentally to adversity, obstacles, challenges and opportunities. A mentally tough person is not necessarily mentally strong. A mentally sensitive person is not weak. These labels confuse and interfere with...
Jan 16, 2025 | John Perry, Mental Toughness
2002 saw the launch of the 4Cs Mental Toughness concept and the MTQ48 measure. In recent times this has been developed into a powerful 8-factor concept with a high-quality measure in the MTQPlus. We now have a very good and evidenced understanding of a personality...
