Math teacher turned model: Pietro Boselli shares how he stays positive during the confinement

Do you have any tips to keep sane and keep yourself positive during lockdown?

Mental hygiene is important. Deal with any thoughts and emotions that are at the back of your head or that seem to trouble you, now that you have the chance to make it routine. Pursue inner peace, realising that you can be content with very little and adapting to any situation, including the lockdown. Just as important is to maintain a healthy body. Work out every day and prepare food that is healthy but also that you really love: food makes us happy, so it needs to taste good. Keep productive but do not stress about productivity: find your flow, and productivity will follow. Do not give up and do not slouch, though. Stay in touch: the best thing about this lockdown is that it made it so much easier to connect with people far away, everyone appreciates it. Some people in the past found it weird to call friends out of the blue for a catch up, but now it is encouraged. I call at least 3 different people every day. Finally, realise that this is the best time for this kind of emergency, we are connected, our governments are trying to help, and we will all come out of this stronger. 

What are you watching?

I have recently watched Tiger King, found it amusing, definitely a new way of making TV a fiction-reality hybrid. I actually do not watch much on TV overall, most days by the time I am done with all I want to do in one day, I like to just unwind naturally, and prepare for sleep. I might catch up with friends or social media instead. 

Can you give us three movies to watch?

I will give you three old classic movies which I think are ideal for the current situation because two of them basically take place in one room, which shows how much can happen by just engaging in thought, and one of them is a satire of a near apocalypse: Rear Window, Dr Strangelove, and 12 Angry Men.

Rear Window, by Alfred Hitchcock

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