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Monthly Archives: December 2008

The High Demand for Sensitivity

What if sensitivity was in high demand? Not only high sensitivity, but sensitivity in general. What if the rareness of your particular sensitive traits prompted competition for your time, attention, and insights?
Recruiters have to be turned away by your assistants. You’ve set the cost of tapping into your skills high, and yet there’s a long [...]

Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title

My goal with this Christmas Day article is simply to make you laugh. I thought I’d tell a few jokes (What’s brown and sticky? … A stick.) and provide a few links to humorous articles.
Maybe later.
I’m too busy wiping tears of laughter from my eyes after researching Bookseller Magazine’s Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title.

How [...]

British TV Crime Dramas

However we spend this holiday season – surrounded by family members who drive us bonkers or fill us with joy, alone and bored or satisfied, or in the quiet nest of close family, there comes a time when a break would be nice. May I recommend a British television crime drama in such a case?
The [...]

The Reset Button

I have a little fantasy about a reset button, probably prompted by my love of science fiction. When I’ve maneuvered myself into a state of overwhelming complexity or pushed myself harder than is healthy, I imagine that I actually have a reset button. It’s located in the part of my back that I can’t reach [...]

Personality Tests

To continue from the last article’s theme of hidden dimensions, how about uncovering more of your own facets? Online personality tests make self-discovery easy. Clarify what you already know about yourself. Thrill to new revelations. But, above all, have fun. You can always ignore any results that don’t make sense for you. No one [...]