It is that patience and openness become a prime attribute of not just growth but survival itself. Composure of the brain and the heart, to talk of just two organs of the human body, is central to having an optimally functioning body.
Self Management
I would say that the pandemic has been an eye-opener on many fronts. It quelled many myths that we had been living with over so many years. The most important had been that we needed people/teams around us/physically present for work to happen.
"What to say and what not to say", is neither a closed-ended question or an open-ended question. It requires judgement. So also the question: "How much to say and how to say it" There are other questions which need to be tackled like :" at what pitch of the voice one should speak and how to choose...