People Live Up (or Down) To Your Expectations

Reading Time: < 1 minute“What we see in people is determined, in large part, by what we expect to find.” — Paul Smith If you expect people to be good, they’ll usually prove you right. If you expect them to disappoint you, you’ll find that too. Here’s the secret most people miss: When you expect bad and get bad, it’s…

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Hard Work Didn’t Earn Me Respect. This Did.

Reading Time: 3 minutesSenior Skip Day, May 2009. The Friday before finals. Everyone else skipped school to do something fun. Me? I was reporting for my first day at a landscaping job. I was the youngest on the crew by a decade. The outsider. Worse—my girlfriend’s dad was the boss. To the rest of the guys, I was…

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