When things are taken out of our sight, that doesn’t necessarily fix things. We are just ignoring them. And most of the time it just postpones things, because when things are worth making them disappear, they usually have a knack for coming back. Plastics. Debt. The...
When things are hard to compare, we simplify. So we take a leap, and we utter the words: “all things equal…” It helps us to make a point, to compare one thing at a time, forgetting about all the things that cannot be compared. And point becomes evident, but not for...
Frameworks are very useful. They allow us to make decisions quickly. In our legal system -for example- we have a thing called “standing”. To have a case, you must be in the right jurisdiction, you must have had an injury, the injury must be demonstrably caused by...
After about a year of being on Zoom calls, we discovered something that therapists have known for a while. Therapists charge by the hour, and they try to book as many sessions as possible. So they end up back-to-back. But sessions need to be wrapped up, notes...
Life rarely grants us a second chance. That’s why, when the stakes are high, these words seldom have the power to erase what we said. They don’t stop the offense, or the embarrassment. But when they do, is because there is a history of how we have handled things in...
We heard it: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” This is certainly true in politics, where the most unexpected crowds can be made to come together to fight a (many times made up!) common enemy. But can this be seen in other areas of life? In business, for example,...
