Life is full of failures, rejection and more than a fair share of discouragement. I believe that the difference in how persistent people are often comes down to how they handle the discouragement that comes from the same situation. While some people can immediately brush themselves off, others can enter a negative cycle of thoughts […]
Beyond Introversion and Extroversion
There are many ways to track personality from the ancient Greeks philosophers who thought that people tended to come in four varieties based on their emotionality and, of course, introversion to extroversion. Myers-Briggs personality tests are fairly popular today using four different measurements of personality with the first personality distinction being that between an introvert […]
Your Life is Already Perfect
How do you see your life and the world right now? Is it a horrible wasteland full of despair and misery or is it great and enjoyable? I’m guessing most people would rate their life somewhere between poor and great with a smaller subset of negative people labeling it a complete disaster. Even if you […]
Dreams to Action
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most the worlds problems.” -Mahatma Gandhi Fellow blogger, Ben Casnocha brought up an interesting point recently. What is it that separates those who dream and talk about big things from those that actually take action towards achieving it? I think […]
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