The Sandwich Generation in an Age of Turbulence: Survival Lessons from Scarlett O'HaraA literary example comes from Margaret Mitchell's immortal saga, Gone with the Wind.
She easily and without regret discards the rudimentary skills, perceptions and habits of a prosperous past and learns new ones (some of them previously despised by her).
She does not waste energy, time and mind on punditry and philosophizing, nor does she give in to impotent complaints and anger.
Scarlett takes responsibility for others, but also pushes the right to unilateral decision-making and interacts with effective people. Cultivates her strengths and acquires new skills, makes necessary sacrifices, and resorts to difficult but necessary compromises in a particular moment. Tough, clear, and ruthless (to himself and others) solves pressing problems and issues, and constantly keeps the only important values for which he works so hard in his mind as reference points and incentives.
