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Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-Year-Old Job Application: Showing People the Value They Need

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The Strange World of the Modern Résumé Looking for a job today can sometimes feel less like introducing myself to another human being and more like trying to satisfy a machine. Many employers use applicant tracking systems, commonly called ATS, to collect, organize, search, and sometimes rank applications. Automated tools may also help employers identify

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Your Money Is a Vote: Knowing When to Walk Away From Places That Do Not Respect You

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The Question Behind Where I Spend My Money There is a question I believe is worth asking whenever I reach into my pocket: Why should I keep giving my money to people who have made it clear they do not respect me? That question becomes even more complicated when race enters the picture. Black Americans

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You Are the Source of Meaning: Why You Do Not Have to Feel Powerful to Have Power Over Your Response

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The Question Behind the Question One spiritual question has stayed with me because it sounds simple but carries a lot underneath it. “If I am the source, why don’t I feel like it?” I understand why somebody would ask that. We often imagine spiritual awareness should come with a certain feeling. We expect confidence, peace,

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Everybody Is Watching Their Own Film: Why Reasonable People Can See the Same Reality Differently

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The Argument Beneath the Argument Some of the hardest arguments I have experienced were not difficult because somebody was lying. They were difficult because both people believed they were telling the truth. I remembered the conversation one way. The other person remembered it differently. I believed I was being reasonable. They believed the same thing

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Trust Your Instruments: When Feelings and Facts Point in Different Directions

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The Lesson Pilots Learn One of the strongest lessons from aviation has very little to do with airplanes and a great deal to do with life. Pilots learn that there are moments when they cannot safely trust what their bodies are telling them. When clouds, fog, darkness, or bad weather remove the visible horizon, the

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When Racism Gets Inside the Mind: Anti-Blackness and the Black Psyche

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The Messages Can Begin Before We Understand Them A Black child can enter the world before having any idea what race means. Yet society may already have meanings waiting for that child’s skin. Long before the child understands those messages, other people may have already attached assumptions to Blackness. Some of those assumptions have been

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When Black America Demands Justice: Turning Anger Into Power

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When Anger Becomes a Question There are moments when Black Americans see another violent death, another disturbing attack, or another court decision and ask how much more we are expected to take. That frustration did not begin yesterday. Our history contains too many examples of racial violence for a new incident to exist completely by

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Milli Vanilli: The Faces of a Deception They Did Not Create Alone

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The Scandal Most People Remember When people from my generation hear the name Milli Vanilli, the scandal often comes to mind before the music. Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan became international stars almost overnight. They had the long braids, the coordinated clothes, the dancing, and the kind of looks made for television. Their songs were

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When Future Income Becomes Valuable Today: The Difference Between Making Money and Becoming Bankable

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A Different Way of Thinking About Money Most of us grow up with a pretty simple understanding of money. I work, somebody pays me, and then I decide what to do with what I earned. My time comes first, and the money comes afterward. I may give an employer forty hours of my life and

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