I asked a group of pupils I was working with recently: give me one word to sum up the session, and one pupil said: Composure. Go on, I said; “What does that mean to you?”
“How you relate to other people and how you support them.”
Then this arrived on my desk from my friends at Gaping Void: What virtues does our job allow us to cultivate?
And here’s the interesting thing. We can design environments that require us to be brave, or bold, reckless, or rash, and in return we get what we practice.
For you to juggle, you need to focus on an accurate throw, and you can’t do that if you are trying to cover up your mistakes; instead, you need composure. You need to let the balls drop. And for that, you need an environment that encourages...