Month: February 2016

What if I don’t know what I want to do?

You’re in school, but you don’t know what you want to study. You’re looking for a profession, but you don’t know what you want to be. You don’t feel talented or particularly skilled at anything. If you’re being honest, your horizon looks pretty empty. We talk a lot about... read more

What does it mean to be “proactive”?

Is it busyness? Just for extroverts? Not for me? When people say to us “be more proactive,” it can feel like we’re being shoved in a direction we don’t want to go. And to a certain extent, that’s true: inertia has set in, there’s a routine to break, and we’ll probably need to... read more