"The privilege of pressure", Djokovic calls it.
Novak Djokovic calls it the "privilege of pressure" but Andy Murray hopes the best player in the world cracks under the strain of expectation he has put on himself before their semi-final at the French Open on Friday.
Djokovic spoke later, not for the first time, about the "privilege of pressure", which seems to have become a mantra for one of the most interesting thinkers on the circuit.
Although I wasn't yet born at the time of the endeavor, I've watched the launch countless times over the years and each time the countdown to ignition begins, I imagine a glimpse into the cockpit where Buzz, Neil, and Mike sat as thousands of pounds of rocket fuel came to life from underneath and both the privilege and pressure of the world hinged on their successful landing and return.
Madeline Levine, a psychologist and author of "The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids" (HarperCollins, 2006), co-founded a project at Stanford University this spring, "Challenge Success," that is working with a network of 50 public and private schools to reduce student stress and focus on developmental needs.
One central figure in the movie is Madeline Levine, a psychologist in Marin County who is the author of a best-selling book, "The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids".
Levine's previous book, "The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids," opened with the image of a "bright, personable, highly pressured" 15-year-old girl with wealthy parents, who seemed, on the surface, to have it all.
Ivy League schools are supposed to be hard, but even back then, I couldn't have imagined the world I was stepping into: a place of unimaginable wealth, privilege, cruelty, pressure, and stress.
On Tuesday McGuire called the type of pressure Buckley is under "a privilege", which in his unique form of Antipodean Gordon Gekko management-speak, probably counts as encouragement.
The king has held onto most of his privileges, and critics say he has simply bought time before another wave of pressure mounts.
Smit said in a statement: "The responsibility comes with a great deal of pressure and expectation but it never loses the thrill or the sense of privilege that comes with it".
