Hello everybody, I'm Helen Tupper and I'm Sarah Ellis and you are listening to the

Squiggly Grace podcast. Each week Sarah and I talk about a different topic to do with work

and discuss ideas and actions to help you develop in your career and be successful in the

squiggly world of work that we are all experiencing. And just before we get started with this week's topic,

I suppose we wanted to pause for thought for just for just a moment. I know September generally

is a bit of a reset moment, but this year and this September isn't the same as previous years.

And I think we're both really feeling it in terms of it feels hard.

It does feel hard right now.

I know people listen to this podcast from all over the world and everybody's in different

stages of lockdown or restrictions.

You know, we've been working in a very different way for quite a long time now.

We've had a lot of uncertainty and change to cope with.

And I was actually reading a really interesting article in The Guardian, which I'll put the link to in our podcast notes,

which was all about if you perhaps find winter quite tough, how our current context potentially

makes it even tougher and how we can learn to think like a Norwegian is the

what's the kind of premise of the article and actually I've been to Norway on holiday and I

this is pre-kids I went to a place called the Loferton Islands and the Lofton Islands in the

winter you get like hardly any certain but when you go in the summer which is when I went

it never gets dark and like honestly it's really weird you can go for a walk when you go in the summer which is when I went it never gets dark and like

honestly it's really weird you can go for a walk at like one in the morning and what they were saying

is there's some really interesting research in terms of how people who live in those kind of areas

like approach winter and the kind of mindset that they have what they found was that people there have have got really good with coping reframing having a really kind of mindset that they have. What they found was that people there have got really good with coping, reframing,

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