In the paper, "You Can Handle the Truth: Mispredicting the Consequences of Honest Communication," Chicago Booth Assistant Professor Emma Levine and Carnegie Mellon University's Taya Cohen find that people significantly overestimate the costs of honest conversations. "We're often reluctant to have com...
This is bold, but here is the rule I have for myself that I hope you will consider implementing: If you have to say a pre-qualifier, don’t say anything at all. If you are so nervous that you can’t own your answer then maybe it isn’t ready to be shared! One-Downing If ...
Eli Watkins, CNN
We make ourfirst impressionin the first few seconds of seeing someone—this happens sometimes before you even start talking. In fact, researchers have found12https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01750.x3that people can make accurate judgments of each other within just 1/10t...
sports and we have insurmountable proof from policy and medical experts that discriminating against trans people does not increase fairness in sports. This isn’t about acceptance, political correctness, or some conspiracy notion about a trans agenda, this is the data and I can’t stress this ...
If you’re consideringstarting a blog today, you need to know your expectations and what not to expect—the pros and cons of blogging. So you don’t get over-excited or disappointed with your results. At some point, many bloggers ask themselves if they should quit blogging. It can be so...
How can I stop being so mean? Can a mean person become nice? 3. Try Not to Judge Other People Everyone should know by now that just like a book can’t be judged by its covers, a person shouldn’t be judged based on the first impression they give you. First impressions are usual...
t fall in if you cannot help someone. You can still be there for the people you love and empathize with them, but you don’t need to rush in and rescue them or lose yourself in their business. You don’t have to make their problems your own; you can instead trust them to solve ...
“Yes. Now let me get back to work, so we can make you famous.” Click. For the next hour, there was nothing to do but sit at the computer pressing the “refresh” button over and over again. I trembled. I prayed. And then the post went live (click here to read it). ...
He added: “You can’t share fully your opinion because it’s not appreciated, apparently, or people can’t handle the full truth. “For me, honestly, it’s better for me if I don’t need to say too much, it also saves my time because we already have to do so much. “It’s ...