When you’re faced with tragedy,18 you usually find that you’re no longer surrounded by people—you’re surrounded by platitudes.
While they suffered an irreparable loss, my children are still fortunate. Nothing will bring their father back, but our circumstances have softened the blow. This is not the case for many children fac...
You can’t do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic ’til dawn … Superwoman is the adversary of the women’s movement.5
You should also be aware of the internal barriers that we often impose on ourselves. Too many women sit on the side of the room when they should be sitting at the table. Too many women lower their voi...
Caring means that when someone is hurting, you cannot imagine being anywhere else. This
Grief. I started to learn that no matter how sad I felt, another break would eventually come. It helped me regain a sense of control. I
Happiness is the frequency of positive experiences, not the intensity.
Husbands in
In business, being risk averse can result in stagnation.
Long-term success at work often depends on not trying to meet every demand placed on us. The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately—to set limits and stick to t...
More involved dads,
Nurturing qualities and put women in a double bind, she said. We believe not only that women are nurturing, but that they should be nurturing above all else. When a woman does anything that signals sh...
Only one criterion mattered when picking a job—fast growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing,...
Painful knowledge is better than blissful ignorance
Post-traumatic growth could take five different forms: finding personal strength, gaining appreciation, forming deeper relationships, discovering more meaning in life, and seeing new possibilities.
Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women.
Success or
There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is...
We should let ourselves react emotionally and feel whatever anger or sadness being criticized evokes for us. And then we should quickly move on.
When it comes to integrating career and family, planning too far in advance can close doors rather than open them.
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