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Ready To Thrive In Your Career? Abolish The Snow Day Mindset.

I hate snow days. Let me be 100% clear on this: it’s not because of some anti-snow, grinch on a crusade against cold weather attitude. It’s not because I dislike the celebration or spontaneity …

Written by Lolita Allgyer

30 Podcasts for Curious Minds in 2019

So you call yourself a lifelong learner? What’s the best way to expand your mind, explore new concepts, and engage with big ideas? Podcasts! They’re great to listen to on your way to work, …

Written by Dave Wasmer

Embracing Imposter Syndrome

Imposter syndrome: that feeling of doubt about yourself and your accomplishments, and the fear of being exposed as a fraud. It’s a common topic for entry level candidates: “I don’t belong here” “They’re going …

Written by Hannah Frankman

Top 10 Ways to Develop Personal Freedom as a Young Adult

1. Scrap the permission-based mindset. Waiting for permission is the fastest way to surrender your personal freedom and autonomy. You don’t need someone to say something is okay. If you know it’s right, based …

Written by Brian Nuckols

Why you Should be an Anti-Reader

It’s tinkering, luck, and action that led to discoveries like penicillin, fire, and better recipes for hummus. Indeed, few of the great discoveries and inventions that have increased human flourishing were the product of …

Written by Sara Morrison

Exercise Your Brain Like a Muscle

Even though your brain is an organ rather than a muscle, the practices you set up to strengthen your muscles also work to increase your brain power. My preferred system is: Fuel, Resistance, Rest, Repeat. …

Written by Brian Nuckols

3 Productive Alternatives to Embarrassment

Embarrassment is part of life. From sending out a mass email with an obvious typo to gruesomely mispronouncing a potential customer’s name, and even well-meaning attempts at humor that don’t go as planned I’ve …

Written by Isaac Morehouse

Your Problem is You Don’t Have Enough Problems

The more action you want to take, the more solutions you want to gain, the more you want to achieve, the more problems you’ve gotta have. Problems lead to questions, questions lead to discovery, discovery leads to progress.

Written by Brian Nuckols

Dream Big, Think Small

Recently, I workshopped an interesting challenge with a potential applicant that makes a good case study on some of the unique ways we like to tackle ambitious goal setting and career planning. This person …

Written by Brian Nuckols

The Four Tendencies

Something we’re passionate about at Praxis is creating value for our customers. It’s incredibly difficult to make an impact at a high growth startup when you have little to no experience in the workplace. …

Written by Brian Nuckols

The Danger of Labels

We label ourselves by the characteristics we show all the time. We define who we are as student, nerd, salesperson, musician, clown, or whatever fits. This label may be reasonable for now, but it …

Written by Chuck Grimmett

How can I come up with more ideas?

We received a question from an Office Hours listener: “When someone gives me a good idea, I’m great at executing on it, but I’m not good at being the guy who comes up with …

Written by Ryan Ferguson

You’re Not Going to Get Stuck at Your Job | Office Hours Podcast

This week’s episode of Office Hours is all about new opportunities. From how to find and connect with great companies in a new city, to how to create opportunities for yourself on the job …

Written by Sarah Iddings

How to Find Experience Everywhere

From a rigid school-based perspective, I have always been a terrible student. I was the problem child who questioned the work and did things my own way. If it didn’t have a foreseeable real-world …

Written by Ryan Ferguson

Have Your Cake and Eat It | Forward Tilt Podcast

“You can be fast and erratic or slow and steady.” “You can have a small remote team, but it won’t work with more than five employees.” “You can think quick and shallow or long …

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