Communication
Intentionally seeking outrage can lead to personal imbalance
Get out of your own echo chamber to expand your perspective, but to avoid personal imbalance, don’t keep seeking out the trolls in their own.
Communication
When people use fridge magnet wisdom to justify bad behavior
Pithy sayings–fridge magnet wisdom–can help us see things in new ways. But their simplicity lends them to being misinterpreted, misused, and even weaponized.
Career
Is your life designed by committee? If so, claim your role as your own committee chair.
Advice from other people is always based on their own biases and experiences. Take control of your own decisions and don’t live a life designed by committee.
Conflict
Loyalty to yourself isn’t as simple as it sounds
Are you most loyal to your past self, to your future self, or to a fictitious self created by other people? The answer should almost always be, “It depends.”
Career
Six reasons you betray your future self, and how to stop doing it
Saying yes to something new can be hard. Don’t betray your future self by giving in to all the bad reasons and external pressures telling you “no.”
Decisions
The best approach is the one you actually use
You can overpay for the best “solution” to your problem, but if you don’t use it, it’s worthless. The best approach is the one you actually use.
Courage
The death of a future story you’ve been telling yourself
We all tell ourselves stories about our future. Some are our own, and some are forced upon us. It’s always hard to go through the death of a future story.
Career
How being 100% certain of your own logic creates unnecessary workplace conflict, and what you can do about it
Unnecessary workplace conflict is often the result of people digging in to entrenched positions. Here’s how to disentrench and seek solutions.
Career
Take control of your career by not doing the things you already aren’t doing
If you feel guilty about always feeling behind schedule, take control of your career and stop doing all those things you’re already not doing.
Career
Is your favorite self-improvement guru a fraud?
Most self-improvement gurus are not frauds, but don’t assume that because their method works for you, it works for everyone. There are so many to choose from.