May 15, 2017 | Education, Mental Toughness
Research undertaken in Northern Ireland shows that SEN teachers who score highly on mental toughness cope better with pupils who present challenging behaviour in the classroom. Stress and burnout, as a result of having to deal with challenging behaviour, is one of the...
May 12, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
I got on the train to the city one day last week in time to hear two schoolboys, probably 16-17 years old, earnestly discussing an issue one of them was having with a fellow student. I wasn’t really listening but when one of them summarised his situation as “no...
May 12, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
In the past few years I have read many articles about the importance of the morning routine on the quality of your daily performance. Most people, myself included, would agree that a structured and consistent morning routine can set you up with the right mindset to...
May 12, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
One of the qualities of mental toughness is being able to keep on going when times are tough, pushing through new mental and physical barriers to achieve one’s goals. This resolve and perseverance often uses all 4 C’s of mental toughness at once, namely Control,...
May 12, 2017 | Education, Employability, Mental Toughness
What is Mental Toughness? Personality can be defined as an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Key to this is Mental Toughness which explains why individuals behave the way they do. In other words, it is the thinking element of...
May 9, 2017 | Mental Toughness
What do we mean by this and why do we bother? In Engineering, a design or process is efficient if it maximizes the amount of work done, while minimizing the resources used (raw materials, time, labour, fuel, etc). An efficient design should do everything it is...
