“We need to train our young people to be resilient!”

As you know, people are suffering from performance-related anxiety quite a lot, and after COVID and with everything in the world, it's, you know, it's rocketing. You know, just anxiety generally in young people, you know, the anxiety is quite high. The stresses of the career, having a career, whatever that means, you know, being told what it means by somebody, and, you know, the expectations that You know, can be quite— I'm not saying that we have to sort of— this is the wrong word— mollycoddle. You know, it has to be, you know, but the thing is that the yoga brings resilience. We need to train people who are resilient because we need— definitely in this job, you need to be very resilient and very flexible, don't you? So that comes with the yoga as well.

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