Imagine standing up to give a speech in front of a critical audience. As you do your best to wax eloquent, someone in the room uses a clicker to conspicuously count your every stumble, hesitation, um and uh; once you’ve finished, this person loudly announces how many of these blemishes have marred your presentation. This is exactly the tactic used by the Toastmasters public-speaking club, in which a designated “Ah
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“Don’t Take It Personally” Is Terrible Work Advice
I was recently working with a leader who had just lost a much-valued employee to a competitor. He had invested a large amount of time in mentoring and training the person and had high hopes and expectations for his career. The employee was someone clearly identified as “top talent” within the company — and what’s more, the resignation came as a complete surprise. The team leader was feeling let down and annoyed.
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We Need to Rethink Our Ideas About Aging
Here’s a utopian ideal: a world in which the “old” are permitted and encouraged to learn new things, to fall in love, to make mistakes, to feel beautiful; in short, to believe life is that myriad of possibilities we consider the prerogative of the “young.” We’ve seen that feeling young can be the key to being young, so let’s encourage it. There would no longer be a reason to fear