To think in the past people had more stoicism and resilience and it’s a shame we’ve sort of lost that?

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Towards the end of the battle of Waterloo, the Marquess of Uxbridge, a British general, had part of his leg blown off by a French cannonball. He was sitting atop his horse next to the Duke of Wellington, to whom he turned and said “By God, sir, I think I’ve lost my leg”, to which the Duke of Wellington replied “By God, sir, so you have”. He then went to the field hospital where the remaining leg was amputated without anaesthetic, while he joked with the surgeons.

Thats one individual and the story is probably elaborated for effect, but AIBU to think people in previous generations tended to be more stoic in the face of adversity. To have a “get on with it” attitude?

There are obvious downsides to that attitude, but it can have lots of benefits to have that approach to life.

AIBU?

Respectfully, this is nonsense. There’s absolutely no correlation between either autism or introversion and good exam performance. And doctors are ordinary people. They’re just ordinary people who went to medical school.

And yes, passed rigorous exams and training, because I imagine you don’t want your heart bypass or your lung transplant done by someone who failed that module, however empathetic they might be.

Tiresome ageism. Knock it off, do.

As for how they'll cope in the workplace, well, in my experience, most youngsters only "grow up" once they're in the workplace, finally working alongside other adults doing stressful work etc. Uni has become just an extension of school, so a lot of youngsters remain immature during their Uni years. They change drastically in their first few months/years of work. And after all, law and medical students don't suddenly become fully qualified lawyers/doctors the moment they leave Uni, do they, so they won't get the same stresses and responsibility of more experienced lawyers/doctors for the first few months/years.

In one of my previous jobs, I was responsible for recruitment of youngsters and probably 90% of them came in very immature and barely able to function in an adult workplace (this was the 1990s!!). It was an absolute pleasure to guide them and watch them turn into fully functioning adults (both in the work place and in their lives outside work) just by them being alongside other mature adults for 7/8 hours per day, rather than being in an artificial school/college/Uni environment surrounded by other immature youngsters.

I could cringe (and so would they) if I think back to some of the more ridiculous youngsters we took on, but most of them are now middle aged professionals in responsible/stressful senior positions.

As for youngsters being naive, immature etc when first coming into the workplace - it was ever thus!

There are accounts of crusaders with PTSD who broke down at the sound of clashing swords.

So with (not much) respect, you're talking bollocks OP.

THANK YOU.

On a lighter note, I've been a Spurs supporter all my life and am amazingly resilient (IYKYK).

I hear you lol. Just had goal disallowed I hear

Try being a Rangers supporter...🙄

BadBadBunny.. that’s insightful. Thank you.

I'm glad you mentioned that. I started work at 16 as was common in the 60s and daily groping was a fact of life. All men were Gregg Wallace and many were a great deal worse. Whenever you started working somewhere new, one of the girls would take you to one side and give you the lowdown on the male staff. At one place I can remember being told not to let a certain staff member get between me and the door - he was a partner in an extremely posh form of London solicitors. One boss did corner me and stuck his hands up my skirt - I managed to knee him in the groin and escape, but really it was just another day in the office. And of course there was never anyone to complain to and it wouldn't have been taken seriously anyway. Men could do as they liked secure in the knowledge that the would get away with it.

I note that the OP hasn't come back and only posted once 🤔

Well, there you go. No resilience whatsoever 🤣🤣🤣