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Benefit From a Think Week, Just Like a CEO.

August 14, 2019 / Michele Koh Morollo / Leave a comment
Photo from Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress.

How to successfully contemplate the bigger picture with your own Think Week.

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Be Glad You Aren’t Too Beautiful, Too Smart, or Too Rich

August 6, 2019August 6, 2019 / Michele Koh Morollo / Leave a comment
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The downsides to being extremely beautiful, intelligent or wealthy might make you grateful you’re just Joe or Jane Average.

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What Chekov’s Dog Taught Me About Purposeful Creativity

August 2, 2019August 2, 2019 / Michele Koh Morollo / Leave a comment
  • Photo by Denniz Futalan from Pexels

“Kashtanka” — Anton Chekov’s short story about a dog with two masters — is a fable about the conundrum of the creative life.

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Political Correctness: Censorship’s Sneaky Cousin

July 6, 2019August 2, 2019 / Michele Koh Morollo / Leave a comment
Photo by Markus Spiske temporausch.com from Pexels

What Kim Kardashian, Nike and the Dalai Lama’s bowing to political correctness says about censorship in the Information Age.

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What Do You Mean I’m INTENSE?!?!

June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 / Michele Koh Morollo / Leave a comment
Photo by Mehrdad Haghighi on Unsplash

Positive and negative implications of the term “intense”.

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Hong Kong’s Protests Are Just the Beginning

June 21, 2019August 3, 2019 / Michele Koh Morollo / 1 Comment
Courtesy of Andrew Morollo

Hongkongers simply don’t identify themselves as Chinese.

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Not All Women Are Meant to Be Moms

June 21, 2019August 2, 2019 / Michele Koh Morollo / Leave a comment
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On peer pressure, late-life motherhood, and why I won’t be having a baby in my forties

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How the Office Can Negatively Distort Our Perception of Time

April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 / Michele Koh Morollo / Leave a comment

Are you living in Kronos (sequential time) or Kairos (numinous time)? Where and how you work can affect how you experience time.

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Why Time Management Is a Hotter Topic than Ever Right Now

March 26, 2019April 29, 2019 / Michele Koh Morollo / Leave a comment
the value of good time management
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Time management literature is more popular than ever. Is this because we’re beginning to see the true value of time?

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Lessons From the Freelancing Life: Everything Expires Eventually

January 30, 2019January 31, 2019 / Michele Koh Morollo / Leave a comment
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As a freelancer, change will be a constant in your life, so learn how to embrace it and grow.

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