BOOK REVIEW | How to serve a tiebreak at adversity’s grand slams

Richard Sutton’s ‘Stressproof’ aims to help people find calm in the storm, using professional tennis as an analogy

29 March 2021 - 20:33 By David Gorin

Adversity is part of life and so is our resilience — up to a point. But like Sisyphus in Greek mythology, punished by Zeus to eternally roll a boulder up a hill, only for it to roll back down again, many of us may now feel utterly depleted...

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