What to give your Recommendation Writers

Your Letters of Recommendation. Some part of your candidacy is determined by letters of recommendation written by – usually – your current boss and another manager. You can mix and match on the “who” writes your letter as long as at least 1 of the letter writers can speak directly and specifically to your work … Read more

Grammar Cheatsheet

Here’s a fellow writer’s grammar cheatsheet: Common Writing Challenges for Native and Non-Native English Speakers, Grammar Cheatsheet.   Don’t forget to scroll all the way down to Principle vs principal …. I see that one misused often. They also include such gems as fewer versus less – a GMAT issue!! Grammar is a set of … Read more

Confidence

Confidence and success go hand-in-hand.   Confidence is a critical, and often missing, component of success. This is partially a result of a legacy of serfdom, parental messages, and the encouragement of trust in institutions by our schools. Adults need to learn independence, a middle way between trust and naïveté, the acceptance of our shortcomings, … Read more

Self Sabotage

It is normal for people to seek out their own happiness. This is especially true for relationships and careers. It is possible though that things do not go the way you want and you end up having negative feelings. In relationships, we can drive our partners to distraction with self sabotage. You have to make … Read more

PLATO ON: The Allegory of the Cave

A lot of people find philosophy not only to be boring but to be a myth. However, Plato felt his philosophy principles were the ways of life. How most profound story was the “Allegory of the Cave”. This was about people who had been living in a cave as prisoners for as long as they … Read more

The Sexiness of Bookish People

Nobody thinks that reading is really attractive because everyone thinks people who love to read are a bunch of nerds. However, people who love to read are some of the most educated people because the more you read the more you know. Everybody loves someone who is very well educated, but do they ever think … Read more

10 Meditation Apps For The Classroom

There are ten meditation apps for the classroom. School can be a very stressful thing nowadays, with all of the pressure that people feel from tests and social groups. It is a good idea to be able to get your mind a little bit freer from the things that stifle your growth. Headspace is one … Read more

HISTORY OF IDEAS – Failure

Humans have always messed up their lives. Failure has an amazing history. Life is full of failures and people can connect to the stories of everyone else failing. Greek tragedy was designed to show that bad things happen to good people. We need to be kind in the face of danger. Money, fame and military … Read more

The Faulty Walnut, your Brain.

Our brains are really amazing things. We trust them a lot, but these brains, like walnuts, are very frail. Most of the flaws of the walnut are due to evolution. We need to have skepticism regarding that walnut at the top of our skull. The walnut is not good at figuring out why it is … Read more

There is no Safety

One of the deepest longings human beings have is for safety. Yet, even though we always strive for safety, we are very fragile and can be gone in a matter of moments. So, the struggle is something that might seem in vain. In the end, erosion and high entropy destroys everything. Nothing promises safety and … Read more

How to Forgive

Forgiveness is something that all human beings are faced with some time in life. It is a choice we must make. We can hold grudges over people and give up on them. That is the easy way. There are other ways to handle it. When people behave in bad ways, it tends to be because … Read more

PHILOSOPHY: Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was an amazing philosopher. He tried to work out how human beings could be good and kind outside of religious traditions. That basically means if people can be good at the being level and not at the intellect. His family was deeply religious and also very strict. He realized a lot about how … Read more

Behind INSEAD’s New (Improved) Career Office

People can take an inside look behind INSEAD’s new and improved career office. Before new students start their classes at INSEAD, they are asked an important question. Are they an explorer, or are they a hunter? Most say that they are an explorer. A typical class at INSEAD has around 500 young professionals in it … Read more