The bounce-back brain
Just what makes us resilient? Are we born with resilience, or can we learn it? Dr Chris Johnstone talks to Jessie Collins about ‘bounceability’ and in a new book devises practices that can help in everything from stressful work environments to relationship breakdown
In May 1989, Chris Johnstone, a junior doctor in the NHS, was driving down a road in Scotland, having managed to take a rare break from his slavish hospital grind, a role which by law at the time required him to work a maximum of 83 hours a week. More often, though, this figure ran to well over 100 hours.
For a brief second, overcome with the fatigue having just finished a 112-hour ...
