Happy New Year, dear readers! I'm not gonna lie; we all thought 2020 was bad and 2021 would be better, but at this point, it honestly feels like we've just been through one huge, horrible, double-length year of anguish and uncertainty. After all that, the holidays and typical year end frivolity just didn't feal right, …
Tag: psychology
Confidence
Confidence is a character trait that has never really come naturally to me. I don't think confidence is something one is born with, but it is instead instilled in you by those who raise you, school teachers, friends, coaches, mentors and any other people you surround yourself with throughout your life. When you are a …
Capitalism, in its Current Form, is an Addiction
America is truly a land of addictions. You need look no further than the latest statistics about the opioid epidemic to see. One hundred-thousand people died in the last year from opioid overdose, mostly from illegal fentanyl, a synthetic version of heroin. This is the same drug that took the lives of Prince, Tom Petty, …
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“Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?”
Ahhhhh, one of the most famous (or infamous) and most common job interview questions. And also one of the most vexing for autistic and other neurodivergent folks. I've recently thrown myself into the deep end in LinkedIn and this is a theme that appears in my feed nearly every day. Most articles seem to state …
Time
Being that this is the week after our semi-annual, fuck-with-my-sleep-for-a-week thing we call the daylight saving time "Fall back," I thought I would write about TIME today. I have always had an uneasy relationship with time. It may or may not have started when, as a young child, I observed the arbitrariness of certain aspects …
What is the Real Difference Between Competence and the Appearance of Competence?
From all outside observation, most people would say I was very good at school. I got good grades and generally followed the rules. I have years of report cards and transcripts that show how capable I was, how much I learned. My final high school GPA was about 3.6 on a 4.0 scale. The problem …
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Life’s Too Short
Life's too short not to make every attempt to make amends with people with whom you've had a falling out. From those you find challenging (or vice versa), the most important lessons come. Life's too short to spend any more than 40 hours per week working. You also have other important things to do with …
The Power of “We”
America is an "I" country. I did this, I'm good at that. Me, me, ME! Everyone wants to talk about what they know, and oneself is the limit to what one can ever know, really. And how many of us REALLY know ourselves? Very few, I would say. So how helpful is this self-focus, anyway? …
Compartmentalization, or Why the Labor Economy is Broken
We are on the precipice of a whole new paradigm when it comes to who works where, how, and for how long. There may be many people who fear such upheaval and would rather just sit tight with the system we have because they had been able to hang on by the skin of their …
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How Well Do YOU Know How Your Brain Works?
I'm guessing that if you're neurotypical, you probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about how your brain works. You have never really been forced to think about it because thinking and doing just happen seamlessly for you. And the results of that thinking/doing tend not to raise anyone's eyebrows, whether you speak or …
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