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July 19, 2016
How To Train Your Brain to Push Past Perfectionism
Perfectionism isn't hard-wired, it's learned. Which means we can unlearn it too, with these methods.
The fear of failure greatly impedes performance. That's why most successful people are less likely to be perfectionists. After all, think about all of the quick, important decisions high-level people need to make every day. They can't be plagued with the fear that every decision is a possible mistake. If surgeons waited until they felt absolutely sure that they were making the correct decision in life-threatening instances, they probably wouldn't be saving many lives.
A Practical Guide For Working Parents To Divide Household Responsibilities
Even when both parents work, moms end up doing more of the household chores. Here's how to make home life more equitable.
Whose job is it to sign the kids up for summer camp, fill out (and fax) the tedious forms, make sure that peanut-free lunches are packed every evening, and drive children to their fun-filled destinations each day?
Three Secrets Of The Most Well-Liked Speakers
Likability isn't some innate quality that you have or you don't. It comes down to what you do when you get up to speak.
Preparing for a talk? You're probably brushing up on your material, making sure you've got a great opening and closing planned, and practicing your pacing. And that's all great. But one thing few of us step back and think about is whether our audience will actually like us.
The Key Skill Robots Will Need To Master Before Taking Your Job
Before they can take over bigger chunks of the workforce, robots may need to learn to make small talk. Few of us seem willing to let them.
The risk that your job will be automated out of existence depends, of course, on the job you do. For many, that's already happened—typically in roles and industries where the name of the game is eliminating human error and improving efficiency.
Five Signs Your Daily Routine Needs A Revamp
It's fine to be a creature of habit, as long as you know when it's time to kick a few habits and pick up some new ones.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm a total creature of habit. I love predictability and stability. They help me to feel focused, organized, and on top of things.
July 18, 2016
How Tech Giants Helped After The Bastille Day Attack (And A French App Didn't)
Twitter and Facebook emerged as heroes after the attack in Nice. An alert app commissioned by the French government, not so much.
When terror attacks, natural disasters, or big accidents occur, people in the danger zone need information about what to do and where to go. Family and friends of those affected seek out information about the safety of loved ones. And the public needs some way to discern fact from rumor as emergencies unfold.
Are Unpaid Internships Still Legal? Here's Why The Law Is Fuzzier Than Ever
A game-changing intern lawsuit against Fox Searchlight is finally ending, but don't expect legal clarity anytime soon.
Eric Glatt just wanted to change careers. He ended up changing the national conversation on unpaid internships. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Glatt left a job at AIG on Wall Street to pursue his dream career in the film industry. At 40, he landed a coveted internship on the set of Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, where he did administrative and clerical work for no pay.
"I decided to get trained up, suffer some of the blows to my ego, start at the bottom, and do what it takes," Glatt tells Fast Company.
How Urban Design Perpetuates Racial Inequality--And What We Can Do About It
Our cities weren't created equal. But they don't have to stay that way.
Cities are complex organisms shaped by myriad forces, but their organization bears the fingerprints of planners and policy makers who have shaped them for decades. At the root of many of these practices is racism, and modern cities bear the legacy of that discrimination.
These Are The Most Optimistic Employees In The U.S.
Good news: Most of us are optimistic about the future of work. Better news: The people in these industries have the most rosy outlook.
In light of the recent tragedies across the U.S. and across the globe, it might be hard to maintain a sense of optimism for the future. However, there is a bright spot.
Former Googler Aims To Create A New Hate-Free Social Media Site
Is an anonymous social network without hate speech, abuse, or power-wielding super-users possible?
Former Google engineer Bindu Reddy has spent years thinking about how people engage on the web. From 2005 to 2008, she worked on the early versions of Google+ as well as the web publishing network Blogger. In the years since, she's launched a management system for helping social influencers monetize their big followings called Mylikes. Now Reddy has a bigger, more ambitious goal in sight: building an anonymous social network without hate speech, abuse, or power-wielding superusers. She's enlisting the help of former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong to help her do it.
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