Yearly Archives

2017

Searching for happiness? Release your inner-child!

Have you ever observed a child playing or interacting with his peers and thought to yourself, ‘wow, isn’t it easy being a child…I wish I could go back there’? It’s a common feeling. With our busy lives of study, work and other…

Overcoming FOMO

This probably happens daily to most of us - I used to get up every morning to the sound of the alarm from my phone. My instinct then, was to pick up the phone and look at my notifications and updates from my social network. Digitisation is…

Self-Care in a Cold World

As I was reading through Swathy’s article for this issue of TYV, I started to reflect on the current state of our world, and the impact it has on our lives and even our wellbeing. When I think about what challenges the world was facing when…

The Importance of Soft Skills in the New Millennium

Students in the new millennium are tech savvy, authentic, liberal, progressive, confident and impatient. They are busy playing online games and are always hooked to social media platforms. They prefer online interaction rather than…

Confidence: Fake it ‘till you make it

At TYV, we spend a lot of time talking about career success. One of the tools you need in your academic and professional ‘toolkit’ is networking. If you learn the skills, and if you put those skills into practice, networking can be a…