Dealing with damage before it wrecks you

July 5, 2020

Written: July 5, 2020 | Released: August 6, 2020 Many of the hard-to-replace things in life accumulate damage as time passes. It's critical to learn to detect and improve damage before these things fall apart. This requires a combination of vigilance (noticing the damage before it is really bad or even irreversible) and continually using effective strategies to repair what's broken. A car will accumulate damage over time, but even if you don't take good care of it, you can get a new one even...

Are you a “credentialist” or “non-credentialist”?

July 21, 2017

Are you a "credentialist" or "non-credentialist"? Here's a test I designed so that you can find out. After noticing a number of times that people's feelings about formal credentials can differ dramatically and that this seems to impact their views on certain important topics, I've been working on defining a "credentialist" trait (or attitude). In a nutshell, the non-credentialist/credentialist spectrum, as I'm defining it, captures how important a person thinks formal credentials are, as ...