When I was in elementary school, every once in a while someone would run up and toss out a dare: “Don’t think about pink elephants.” Guess what? I spent the rest of the day thinking about…pink elephants. I couldn’t make myself stop. It’s one of those immutable laws of life: the thing you most try [...]
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I heard something the other day that made all my fur stand on end and had me feeling like a cat being petted backwards. I was in a class, and the topic was strengths and weaknesses, especially in relation to having a successful, satisfying career. The speaker quoted author Marcus Buckingham, who maintains that we [...]
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