CIRCUIT MAGAZINE ISSUE 55
By: Dr Mils Hills
I totally understand why even the thought of undertaking any kind of education fills security professionals with dread. It’s a rational response to being faced by an experience which is regularly made almost impossible by the people who instruct on courses and degrees. But of course, the students who flood off to colleges and universities in their late teens and twenties are rarely bedevilled by such thoughts! So why, when it comes to learning later in life, to undertaking vocational-related training and – of course – distance-learning, do we find it so difficult to succeed?
In short, we overthinking the problem. Again, for totally understandable reasons. We invest time, energy, sacrifice leisure activities and sometimes absolutely need to pass a qualification for professional reasons. This adds so much pressure onto us, and with pressure comes stressors on the brain
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