Tag: self-improvement

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Don’t Be Afraid to Bet On Yourself

9 minute read Ignore the Siren Call of the Easy Button I subscribe to a lot of guru newsletters, and I’ve taken a number of paid courses from some of them. I’m pretty good at finding salient nuggets of information I can actually implement. However, their marketing engines selling new courses and opportunities can really […]

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How Comparisonitis Can Make a Career But Kill Your Dream

9 minute read Darn, I thought I made up the word comparisonitis myself. It ends up someone else beat me to it. I can’t even be first in making up a word. Comparisonitis: The compulsion to compare one’s accomplishments to another’s to determine relative importance. — Wiktionary I’ve never kept score between myself and my […]

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