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According to research by Dr. Brinkman and Kirschner in Dealing with People You Can’t Stand, there are challenging personality types that make our lives harder: The Tank: Confrontational and angry. The Sniper: Makes you look foolish. The Grenade: Explodes into fury out of nowhere. The Know-It-All: Authoritative and things must be their way. The Whiner: Points out everything wrong in vague […]
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In 2007, I was 21 years old and I was sitting in Philly’s Pizza in Beverly Hills. I was on my lunch break. Every day I would get two slices of pepperoni and olives and read. That day it was a re-read, a chapter in 33 Strategies of War about the Battle of Marathon. There was a […]
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I’ve just left the corporate world. It’s been seven years and I don’t regret a single second of it. You’d think I would have learned everything there is to know about business in the corporate world. I didn’t. There were a lot of gaps which I luckily was able to fill in during my entrepreneur […]
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The last five years have seen explosive growth in social media engagement. There’s LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and many more places to build a ‘personal brand.’ The word influencer is thrown around like “if you’re not one then you’re a failure.” There’s no real unanimous agreement on what actually makes someone an influencer. Too many of […]
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In my previous life, material possessions were a key to happiness. I admit I have my fair share of luxury brands at home but after a few years, I realised they no longer made me happy. It was a status thing in the beginning. A proof that I made it. I was wearing a similar watch […]
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Why our personality types affect the way we work. As soon as you step into an office, it’s easy to see that each person has his or her own style of working. Some people naturally gravitate to others and always seem to be in groups. Others are much more efficient if they work at home or […]
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How to channel a bad habit into something that actually makes your life easier. If you ask Frank Partnoy, a professor at Berkeley Law School and the author of Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, procrastination has gotten a bad name. “The reality is everyone is procrastinating… all the time,” he says—himself included. Partnoy’s philosophy is this: […]
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Stuck on a hard problem? The director of MIT’s Leadership Center says you might just need to reframe it. Trace the origin story of any creative breakthrough and it is possible to find the point where someone changed the question. I have seen this as a longtime student of innovation; the stories in that realm […]
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It’s a warm, overcast Saturday, and the creative writer in me longs to play with words, trying to sculpt poetry or prose out of whatever inside me has not found its way into words yet. My daughter Elizabeth, however, is a bundle of restless, enthusiastic energy, an adventure waiting to happen. There isn’t a question […]
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When you’re a kid, everything is a tragedy. Your grilled cheese has the crust on? The horror. Can’t assemble that Lego set? Might as well stomp up and down. You can’t change this. What you can do, however, is arm your kid with the techniques that teach them how to bounce back from their daily struggles so that, later […]
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