Improve your life by learning how to cope with feeling sad with these tips
Helen Russell
IN our pursuit of happiness, we’ve become scared of ever feeling sad.
Yet it could hugely improve our lives, says writer and author Helen Russell.
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Learning how to be sad and dealing with it could hugely improve our lives, according to author Helen RussellCredit: Getty
“Hope you’re OK!”, the message pinged up on my phone. I wasn’t. Not really. In the midst of a global pandemic, none of us have been. Even for a nation famed for its stiff upper lip, the last year has been challenging. We’ve felt fear, anger, despair – and sadness. Only most of us aren’t good at being sad. We tend to push it away, bury it or ignore it altogether.
When India launched its COVID-19 vaccination drive in the middle of January, the chances of success looked high: It could produce more shots than any country in the world and had decades of experience inoculating pregnant women and babies in rural areas.
“Our preparation has been such that vaccine is fast reaching every corner of the country,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Jan. 22. “On the world’s biggest need today, we are completely self-reliant. Not just that, India is also helping out many countries with vaccines.”
Just more than three months later, that initial promise has evaporated and the government’s
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One of the greatest pleasures of my job is that I get to regularly hang out with a group of very smart people known as economists.
Do not be fooled by the pointy heads and tweed jackets, economists are a deeply passionate people. Theyâre just passionate about different things to you and I, like minimizing waste, allocating resources efficiently and maximising the happiness of society. Actually no, Iâm pretty passionate about that stuff, too.
Universities might poach students from each other, says report
Australian universities have been the hardest hit by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to those in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, according to an international report which says the sector may resort to lowering fees and entry standards to poach students from each other, writes Anna Patty for the
Brisbane Times.
S&P Global Ratings, which revised its positive outlook for the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Wollongong to negative last year, has provided another bleak sector outlook for this year because of their heavy reliance on international student enrolments. “Our overall sector view remains negative,” the report says.