University life can be demanding, especially for students who set ambitious performance goals. Navigating academic challenges, extracurricular commitments, and personal growth endeavors can create significant workload and pressure.

In the workshop, Ms Karen Lo, a Sports and Performance Psychologist from InnerEdge, shared tips for managing life's demands, overcoming fear of success and failure, and establishing better relationships that support students' goals and personal well-being at HKUST.

Karen also discussed mental resilience and the steps to build it. Resilience is not only the ability to bounce back from mistakes but also the capacity to withstand and recover from stress. She emphasized the importance of scheduling pit stops ahead of time. Karen used interactive activities and case studies to illustrate the positive and negative zones of the pit stops. By the end of the workshop, participants were able to identify the zone of their pit stops and create a list of activities to move towards the positive zones.