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Does true grit just belong in movies? Or can we teach it to our children? | Young people


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Crises may harden the resilience of some young people. But it won’t happen without a dedicated plan
Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film version of The Right Stuff. Photograph: Moviestore/Shutterstock
Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film version of The Right Stuff. Photograph: Moviestore/Shutterstock
Sun 24 Jan 2021 03.45 EST
Last modified on Sun 24 Jan 2021 04.05 EST
Sir John Bell, who is at the centre of Britain’s Covid vaccination programme, spent a year in hospital with polio as a child. That setback, he said last week, helped him to become successful: “If stuff comes at you, you just have to get on and do what’s best.” Bell thinks that, similarly, the experience of the pandemic will give this generation of young people an inoculation of resilience. “You might well end up with a generation of high achievers,” he said. ....

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