“…Indeed, in a 2017 book chapter, Collins and MacNamara made use of the idiom: 'a smooth sea never made a skillful sailor', suggesting that the skills to cope with a variety of developmental challenges can be taught as a result of challenge but crucially, need to be deployed in order to facilitate the navigation of the talent development pathway (Collins & MacNamara, 2017). Furthermore, given the complexity and, in some quarters, the confusion generated by the suggestion that 'talent needs trauma' (Collins & MacNamara, 2012), there is a pressing need for a more granular understanding of the development pathway (Gulbin et al, 2013;McCue et al, 2019), together with greater insight into the nature and role of emotional disturbance .…”