Category Archives: Personal Success
AuGuest Post: Confidence and Grad School, by Diana Antholis
Confidence and Grad SchoolI was always a confident, independent woman…until I went to graduate school. Self-assessments and personality tests hold no ground compared to the self-realization process I encountered during graduate school. I was stripped down to my core while simultaneously being built back up. A truly bizarre experience.During my time in school and at …
Introvert Risks
At a later date, I plan to respond to this notion that the very act of stepping out of your comfort zone is useful in its own right. This pervasive notion among the success gurus out there that you are not living your life, and have no hopes of success unless you are opting to …
Your Independence Day
From the standpoints of money, power, expertise, history and half a dozen other things, the American Colonists were never supposed to be able to win independence from the British Crown. Everything was stacked against them in every conceivable way. And when you look at the Revolutionary War from a tactical perspective, many, if not statistically most of …
There ARE Small Parts. But Avoid Small Thinking.
If you ever check out my other blog, (and history suggests that you never do), you will know that I am currently in yet another play. This time, the play is Tom Stoppard’s, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. It is in a way Shakespeare’s Hamlet from a vastly different angle. In fact, it’s told from the …
Think Best, Not Impress.
It’s human nature to want to impress people sometimes. I find it hard to believe that there is anybody anywhere who has never at some point tried to impress someone for any number of reasons. And some of those reasons seem legitimate. Yet we tend to conflate doing our best work for someone with impressing …
Ty Unglebower 