I was going to write about something else entirely today but sometimes life hands you surprises – or knocks them off shelves to crash at your feet. As I mentioned several weeks ago, my apartment was flooded. The flood came from under the wall and didn’t get more than an inch or two deep; so …
Earlier this year I met with a group of women who met to discuss where to take their careers next. The group specifically targeted women who had reached a certain age and were already successful in their careers. At the first meeting, I listened to the other women introduce themselves and thought, “These women are …
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Are you a fan of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock? In several episodes, he mentions in passing his Memory Palace. In each episode, we see him scrolling through a virtual screen of memories, reorganizing them, putting them together in different ways until the solution finally comes to him, seemingly out of nowhere. I thought the “Memory Palace” …
A friend gave me some great feedback the other day. I was confiding about a work conversation that hadn’t gone at all the way that I wanted it to. “He asked this question and my mind blanked, I didn’t know what to say.” “So what did you do?” He asked. “I babbled,” I confessed. He …
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