a practical superpower

I don’t typically enjoy watching TV shows or movies as much as I enjoy reading. However, there are a handful of movies and TV shows that are exceptions to this rule. The Sherlock series by BBC is one of those acceptions. Growing up I loved Sherlock Holmes. I had a massive book that was the…

Your strategic advantage

Humans are incredibly unique, from your environment, the people in your life, your education, how you think, and your perception of the world. And through all of the enormous amount of diversities, there are universal wants in people. One of which being that people want to be understood and accepted. The best way to make people feel…

compromise isn’t all it’s made out to be

Say you’re giving a friend advice on what shoes to wear on a night out. Your friend picks a pair of polka dot shoes and you pick a pair of striped shoes. Now the worse thing you could do is compromise between the two options, resulting in her wearing one polka dot shoe and one…

Remember

you will achieve great results by putting in a lots of great effort

we are irrational beings

In 1979 a pair of professors at the University of Chicago were looking at everything from economics to negotiate from a different perspective. These scholars were the now past economist Amos Tversky and the still living psychologist Daniel Kahneman. The two friends started discussing the field of behavioral economics in their daily banter. This discussion was…