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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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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Reading Time: 9 minutesOur relationships with others—our friends, family, and significant others—give our life its greatest moments and sense of purpose. However, as an adult, do you actually know how to make new friends? As we grow into adulthood, and periodically throughout our life, we go through periods of “friendship pruning.” We begin to recognize that some of…
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Reading Time: 6 minutes[This article is a follow-up article to Theory of Mind: How To Understand Others Better. You can read that article by clicking here.] A couple weeks ago I was in bed ready to fall asleep, it was around 11:30pm. As I’m drifting off I hear a weird buzzing noise. My girlfriend hears it too. It…
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