I’ve been increasingly looking for a productive approach to venting. In an uncharacteristically overloaded year, I’ve often comforted those colleagues who are stressed and need to vent. I’ve wanted (and want) them to feel better. But at the end of a colleague’s vent, I’ve felt worn out and, futilely, they’ve seemed more hopeless. I worry […]
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In November 1979, an Air New Zealand DC10 crashed into the 12,000 FT Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board. Due to a navigation system input error, the pilots unknowingly flew off course which put them 45KM away from their planned flight path – sending the plane directly into the side of the mountain.
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“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ― Coco Chanel It’s often observed that the path to success is paved with failure. Yet, it’s easy to treat failure as catastrophic. My Story At the end of grade one, I couldn’t read. My teacher thought that I should repeat
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In January, I did stuff I didn’t want to do and now I can’t stop. At the beginning of the year, I read a book called The Motivation Hacker and decided to start implementing what it called “Success Spirals.” You can read more about the start of my journey here. But basically a Success Spiral
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