We all reach milestones in our career when we can feel sad, angry and frustrated. These include being passed over for a promotion, realising it’s time to move on from a job that you’ve worked in for five years, and understanding that some fellow colleagues have specific strengths in areas you perhaps will never be equally adept in.

But it often feels like we’re not allowed to feel this way, for fear of coming across as jealous, weak or a bad team player. We’ve been conditioned to hold back the tears and not cry at work, rather than valuing how a good cry can actually improve mental health.

The difficult career lesson we can all learn from Serena Williams’ reaction to losing