How Complaining Rewires Your Brain for Negativity
“Repeated complaining rewires your brain to make future complaining more likely. Over time, you find it’s easier to be negative than to be positive, regardless ...
Author: EBenedict
Most Managers Are Scared to Talk to Their Employees
“A full 69% of respondents said that they found ‘communicating in general’ to be the hardest part about communicating with employees.”
How to Get Any Career Opportunity You Want in the Next Six Months
Your big break won’t come until those who can give to you know you exist. Some people think telling everyone how great they are or bombarding strangers with Lin...
What It Takes to Have a Meaningful Opinion
“Only then, when you can argue better against yourself than others can, have you done the work to hold an opinion. That is the time you can say, ‘Hey, I can hol...
The Most Overlooked Part of the Creative Process
“Creative people naturally produce false-positives. Ideas that they think are good but aren’t. Ideas that other people have already had. Mediocre ideas that con...
Your Story Is Your Power
“Whether we realize it or not, we define ourselves through stories. Understanding your own story is the key to understanding yourself, your world, and your capa...
I Did What Every Instagram Expert Says Is Stupid and It’s Working Great
I’m not an Instagram expert. But I do know how to grow an audience, create value on social media, and share new social media tips every day. I’ve done some expe...
Marketing Is Just Being Considerate
“Marketing means making it easy for people to notice you, relate to you, remember you, and tell their friends about you.”
What Makes a Community?
“We find ourselves working under a false definition of community — accepting any connection, any conversation, any link as qualification — and we end up with so...
20 New Social Media Tools to Try in 2018
“There are now more than 5,000 tools in the marketing technology landscape. So where do you start?”