skills

The charity works with about 400 children from the city's slums, providing them free food, education and job skills.

And in its simple, generous spirit of giving these creatures palpable narrative power, there’s a profundity: “Flow” might only be imagining their coping skills without us, but it’s a charming, poignant vision of community and perseverance we could stand to be inspired by.

But that unusual background—and the classroom skills he acquired—may serve him well in today’s raucous political environment.

Page, says her path to Olympic stardom, like her medal journey, has also had its ups and downs, including overcoming injuries and a period of sporting yips - a sudden and unexplained loss of ability to execute certain skills - during her teens.

"It took a lot of years to get all of the skills back," she said.