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Bad attitudes and pointing fingers
It’s easy to call out other people about their bad attitudes while having bad attitudes yourself. And you may even tell other people how horrible they are without seeing yourself as terrible at par. I had this encounter with a man one time who is openly proud of his brashness and lack of self-control. He Read more
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News that lean in one direction
News that is reported the same by news outlets on both the left and the right is probably true. If you only see a story reported by news sites that lean in one direction, it probably isn’t true. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more
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Back on the farm
Growing up in a small city, I always wondered how it’s like to live in a big one, with tall buildings everywhere you look at. But now that I am living in the metro with almost concrete everywhere, I can’t help but wish to be back home. To be away from the never-ending noise and Read more
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2020 rhymes with 2008 and 2009
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Mark Twain I’ve been listening to Harvard Business Review IdeaCast podcast since early this year, and I decided to begin with their first episode, which aired in 2006. After hours and hours of interrupted playback and juggling in-between podcasts, I thought I accidentally played 2020 the moment Read more
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Misleading reports and missing contexts
Reports about famous people and other newsworthy topics are either wrong or misleading about 60 percent of the time, often because they lack context. Wait a few days before forming an opinion on anything new, just in case context is missing. It usually is. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more
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How to assess whether to have a meeting or not
In the middle of your workday, you receive an email telling you that the office will have a meeting tomorrow before lunch. And then, you tell yourself that the meeting could have been just an email. At the back of your mind, you know that the meeting was just an excuse to have a free Read more
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It’s not all about you
When we were children, we look forward to life, thinking about the possibilities ahead of us. We believe we could be this or that. It’s all about what we could become. But now that I am in my early adulthood, I realized that life is not “all about you.” Maturity begins when you start to Read more
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