Category: Balance

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The Two-Organizations Problem: How Dysfunctional Communication Creeps In

(This blog draws HEAVILY from a June 26, 2026 Harvard Business Review article by Irina Wolpert, including all quotes) Every organization is

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The Upside of the Downside

Disappointment is basically your emotional response to a ‘prediction error’: Reality did not match your expectations and the bigger the gap, the

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Attention is a Limited Resource: Do You Allocate Yours Intentionally? Or Outsource it to Social Media, Etc.?

Cognitive psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and engineer Robert Lucky estimate that our environment bombards us with approximately 10 million to 11 million bits

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Your Personality: Helping or Hindering?

When it comes to your personality, your tendency does not have to be your destiny. Think of your personality as akin to

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Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance

Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance by Laura Vanderkam takes the position that no matter how busy we feel, most

A hand places a wooden block on top of a stack that reads “PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION,” emphasizing steady improvement rather than flawlessness.

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Perfecting Perfectionism

The best performers or positive perfectionists aim high and happily iterate away if they miss. Negative perfectionists aim high and are excessively

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Be Careful What You Keep Close to Your Heart

If you choose to hold a grudge or a grievance or latch onto any form of resentment, spite, anger, envy, jealousy, or

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Your Unlived Lives

‘Your Unlived Lives’ refers to the set of choices you didn’t make—and the selves you didn’t become. Call it the unrealized self

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Gradually, Then Suddenly

We humans prefer the simplicity of straight-line linear systems; we would like the world to behave in an orderly, predictable fashion. Would

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Opposite Me

Confirmation bias, the tendency to see what we expect and want to see, is one of the most common human mental shortcuts

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Soft Strengths are the Hardest

I have relentlessly pursued mastery of my craft my entire life. My home library has over a thousand books, I have three