“True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation…” Those words, which were first coined by author and professor Robert McKee, are oft considered the Cardinal Rule for storytellers aiming to infuse their fiction with heroes that pop from the page or jump off the screen.
Over the last month, however, as the pressure on all of us here at Cal State Fullerton and everyone around the world increased with exponential force, it occurred to me that there is another context in which that mantra can be applied: to real people under real pressure.
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