Do You Suffer From ‘Fear of Success’?
Fear of failure, that’s easy to understand. For some people, failure means shame and permanent defeat. Maybe they haven’t learned the mantra: there is no failure, only feedback. But fear of success? Ridiculous! But pause a second. Why else do we sometimes set ourselves up for failure – self-sabotage – before we’ve even begun? One article lists the ways we do this very...
Read MoreHyperlocal is the New Black
The web is a big place. It’s full of porn, and social networking sites, people flogging all manner of dubious health products and even more dubious information on how to be happy. Much of it is pretty useless. How do we sift through the dregs to find the cream? What I’ve noticed recently is a profusion of hyperlocal sites. I used to bemoan the fact that websites mentioned...
Read MoreAmerican Pessimism and the Recession
The relationship between optimism, pessimism and the economic downturn is a fascinating one. I’ve blogged before about how some American thinkers have tried to blame the recession on a surplus of optimism, untempered by the sense of realism that pessimism brings. But it now seems that too much pessimism is bad for you too. In fact, increasingly, the US is positively – or should...
Read More5 Ways Introverts Can Excel at Networking
My name is Dawn Baird, and I’m an introvert. I would even say, an extreme introvert. Where did this first manifest itself? School – that place of daily torture for those who aren’t sporty, arty, academic, amusing or loud. What unthinking labels did people condemn me with? Shy. Stand-offish. Quiet. It took well into my twenties to stop punishing myself with their words. ...
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