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If you want to stand out at work, stop worrying about acting cool in front of your colleagues, says workplace expert Henna Pryor. Instead of trying to manage other people's perceptions of you, focus ...

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Some degree of failure is inevitable. However, people respond differently to their own failure. Do any of these three styles of response to failure sound like you? The Impunitive Style When faced with ...

Before cities, smartphones, or even written language, humans had one major survival tactic: each other. We lived in small, tight-knit groups where survival meant working together. And to do that, we ...