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Summer Vacation
It was never my intention to do as students do and take the summer off. Real life has a way of completely tearing apart the things you wish to accomplish on the internet (though I suppose that could be...
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Baby Steps
I’ve talked a good bit about fear over the months, and I just feel like I need to bring it up again (and probably again and again and again). I’ve been thinking lately about what all of this is...
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How To Be Wrong
If there is one thing that I wish school had taught me at a young age, it is how to be better at being wrong. I feel that in this age of coddling children with participation awards and an everybody...
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The Psychology of Effort
The question I see most often searched that gets people to this website is some variation of “does effort matter?” or “is effort important?” which seems to cause alarm bells in my brain to ring out....
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PTA: Personal Turmoil Assistant
A few nights ago, I began watching old episodes of Kitchen Nightmares on Netflix. For the uninitiated, chef Gordon Ramsey visits restaurants that are falling apart and uses his own brand of style and...
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An Insane Level Of Responsibility
Have you ever heard someone, usually in the act of staring down at you and rolling their eyes, say “just wait until you get out of school, then you’ll see real responsibility!” and then they scoff and...
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“Look What I Made!”: Your Child As A Product
I’m not a parent, but I know that being a parent can be an incredibly rewarding experience full of all sorts of life-changing moments. I also know that there is nothing that some parents like to do...
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With Apologies To Myself
It’s been about five months since I last wrote anything of length or substance. That is totally my fault. What it all comes down to, sadly, is something I’ve spent a good bit of time on this very site...
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Flipping The Switch
I was going to start out this post with the simple statement “Everyone has a switch.” but before my fingers even graced my keyboard I decided against it. The reason I have decided against it is because...
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Dealing With Dead Ends
I love mazes. I used to draw my own on giant desk pads and pray that I wasn’t leaving a twisted trail of dead ends in my wake as I moved from one corner of the paper to the other. I like running...
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