When most people hear about someone falsifying qualifications on a resume, they assume the lesson is simple:

Don't lie on your CV.

Which is certainly good advice.

But the NSW ICAC's recent Operation Tivoli report highlights a much bigger issue than resume fraud.

We live in a culture that still treats kindness as a personality trait rather than a skill. Worse, it's often dismissed as a liability - something you grow out of, toughen past, or learn to suppress if you want to survive in "the real world". But anyone who has ever led a team through crisis…

There's a particular kind of overwhelm that belongs to this moment in history.

It's not just the usual pressures of adulthood: the bills, the deadlines, the responsibilities. It's the sense that the world itself is vibrating at a frequency our nervous systems were never designed to hold.