It’s possible to set up a competition to make the task of picking someone to champion feel easier. Whether you call it a contest or an audition, you can manufacture scarcity and let the process filter out those who are too fragile, too introverted, or too time-consuming. You hope that the ones who survive and make […]
When we are fortunate and able to work with thoughtful, warm, and mutually supportive people, we will quite possibly feel competent and able to contribute. Afterwards, we may notice that this is in contrast to how we often feel when trying to work with unseeing, unsympathetic people: weary, unable to contribute, and dull.
There are different ways to respond to a document that contains typos. Sometimes, we don’t see the typos at all. Other times, we see them but don’t seem to register them consciously. This can subtly influence how we feel about the document, the subject, or the author. The typos may assert themselves into our consciousness and […]