Category: The Knowing (Self Awareness)

A chalkboard graphic asks, “WHAT DO YOU WANT?” beside a profile of a head with a question mark, suggesting self-reflection or goal-setting.

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What are You Hungry For?

What drives you? What do you seek? What do you want? Usually, it’s not the thing or goal per se that we

Flat illustration of a businessman inside an open head using a net to catch flying lightbulbs with wings

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10 Ideas We Accept Too Readily

Without being fully aware of the process, we have absorbed norms from the world around us; unquestioningly inheriting assumptions from family, class,

A sequence of puzzle pieces illustrates moving from a problem or question through analysis and process to an innovative solution.

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What’s your problem?

One way to analyze human problems is via Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, beginning with our most fundamental physical needs (oxygen, water, food,

Flat illustration businessman sleeping ringing alarm clock later note procrastination time management missed deadline low productivity work delay

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Self-Regulatory Failure

Self-regulatory failure is a fancy phrase for procrastination: putting off what we KNOW we would be better off getting over with. There

Stacked stones labeled “Work,” “Life,” and “Balance,” symbolizing the challenge of maintaining work-life balance.

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Work & Life: Finding the Sweet Spot

Inherent in the phrase ‘work life balance’ is the implication that they are somehow at odds, that one comes at the cost

Colorful plastic alphabet letters are scattered across a turquoise wooden surface, with a random pile on the left and the words "WORDS HAVE POWER" arranged on the right.

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Casting Spells

“The English word ‘spell’ comes from the Proto-Germanic *spellą, which simply meant ‘to speak’, ‘a story’, or ‘a narrative’. To spell a

Through glasses frame. Colorful view of colorful tulips in glasses and monochrome background. Different world perception. Optimism, hopefulness, mental health concept.

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What Type of Glasses Do You Put On Every Morning?

Most of us like to think that we see the world the way it truly is, that what we perceive to be

Two wooden letter blocks arranged to spell “IQ,” sitting on a green surface against a bright orange background. The “I” and “Q” are visible on the front faces, with an “E” visible on the top/front of the left block.

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Intelligence is Not a Reliable Predictor of Success

Intelligence matters—but far less than many people assume. How you use your mind matters far more than how powerful your mind is.

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So Much is in the Frame

We create our life by the interpretations we assign to the events of our lives. Far, far more than we realize, this

Alphabet letters with text FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS isolated on yellow background

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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

A red background and a blue compass with the arrow pointing to the words "core values"

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What Do You Really Stand For?

You may think you have deeply held values however if you don’t spend time thinking about them, naming them, listing them, turning