
Why taking the first step feels so hard: Understanding cognitive dissonance
You know you should do it. You’ve thought about it, talked about

You know you should do it. You’ve thought about it, talked about

Growing up in the Upper Hunter town of Dungog, NSW, Jessica Watson harboured a quiet certainty that her future belonged somewhere in regional Australia. She wasn’t sure where, but she knew city life was not for her. It took an unexpected, last minute shift in her university placement schedule during COVID to discover that her future was in Broken Hill in Far West, NSW.