The Fine-Line

Abstract

As a part of the book Nurturing Student Well-being in the Modern World, this chapter aimed to create novel perceptions of existing issues from a contemporary lens in today's fast-paced digital-age world. This chapter covers five main perspectives on Balancing Academic Pressure: The Role of Personal Development as a contributor to Well-being, Delving Deeper: Understanding the nature of Academic Pressure & Exploring its effects in different domains of life; repercussions of sustained Academic Pressure; Strategies for Balancing the Fine-line: Navigating Competition; Milieu: Understanding the importance of Mental Health Awareness Parenting; The Way Forward: Academic Pressure, Role of AI in Student Well-Being, Critical Evaluation of Policies of the Education System and a list of links that contain mental health resources that promote student well-being.