One of the things I tell people these days is that 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...
Of the hundreds of answers, most had one thing in common: the majority of regrets were about failures to act, not actions that failed. Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the cha...
Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely.
My generation was raised in an era of increasing equality, a trend we thought would continue. In retrospect, we were naïve and idealistic. Integrating professional and personal aspirations proved far...
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
Most people, myself included, really want to be liked—and not just because it feels good. Being liked is also a key factor in both professional and personal success. A willingness to make an introduct...
Men have an easier time finding the mentors and sponsors who are invaluable for career progression.
Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.
Men at the top are often unaware of the benefits they enjoy simply because they're men, and this can make them blind to the disadvantages associated with being a woman. Women lower down also believe t...
In order to protect ourselves from being disliked, we question our abilities and downplay our achievements, especially in the presence of others. We put ourselves down before others can.
In my experience, survivors want the opportunity to teach and not be shunned because they went through something unknowable, Merle said.
In 2012, a series of studies compared men in more modern marriages (whose wives worked outside the home full-time) to men in more traditional marriages (whose wives worked at home). The researchers wa...
I will sometimes feel this awful.
I turned to her and said, I can’t believe you are going through this again. How are you okay? How can you possibly be okay? She said, I didn’t die. Mel did and Dave did, but I am alive. And I am going...
I told the members of the graduating class that they should be ambitious not just in pursuing their dreams but in aspiring to become leaders in their fields.
I am also writing this for any man who wants to understand what a woman—a colleague, wife, mother, or daughter—is up against so that he can do his part to build an equal world. This
Hard work and results should be recognized by others, but when they aren’t, advocating for oneself becomes necessary. As discussed earlier, this must be done with great care. But it must be done. Taki...
Grief, she writes, is a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher death, grief is unspoken, publicly ignored except for those moments at the fu...
From the moment we are born, boys and girls are treated differently.19 Parents tend to talk to girl babies more than boy babies.20 Mothers overestimate the crawling ability of their sons and underesti...
From the moment we are born, boys and girls are treated differently. Parents tend to talk to girl babies more than boy babies. Mothers overestimate the crawling ability of their sons and underestimate...