“To negate the ego you must adopt a kind of humility toward knowledge.” ~Robert Greene “…knowledge is constantly progressing. The greatest theories of the timeare eventually disproven or altered at some future point.” ~Michael Faraday Given the choice between being right or effective… choose effective.
Category Archives: Insight
But at what cost…
“That’s OK” Is Not OK: The Growth Mindset Rant (Part 1: The Individual)
Christopher J. Colombo MD, CEC, CMC, CPP Introduction “Some people are not good at [insert, whatever here]. And that’s ok.” The genesis of this post came from an interesting set of coincidences: That line came out of a podcast I listened to recently, and it nearly snuck past me on a quick listen, but something...
Simple Isn’t Easy…Yet Why Hard Things Get Easier (and How to Make That Happen)
Christopher J. Colombo MD, CEC, CMC, CPP Introduction Some things (2×2 tables for example) trigger an instant “old man shouts at clouds” reaction from my teenage daughter.I can be halfway into what I think is an insightful rant, cue the eyeroll. However, there is an inverse relationship between the rotational force vector of teenage eye-rolling and the...
Everything becomes easier the moment you stop wanting it to be easy…
The problem is you want simple to mean easy. Whatever you are trying to achieve, the path is almost always simple… but not easy.
Why Doing Hard Things Matters
The main purpose of doing hard things, particularly when you do not need to do hard things, is to teach yourself you can do hard things, when you need to do hard things.
So, Ya Got Fired…Part 3 Move to Action
Christopher J. Colombo MD, CEC, CMC, CPP Next take home point: Still fired, so Now What? In our previous installments we discussed an approach to the initial reaction (emotionally) of getting fired, and then discussed an approach to sorting thru the feedback to gain an accurate picture of your current self. Now is the next...
“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.” ~Albert Schweitzer
So, Ya Got Fired…Part 2: Feedback and Insight
Christopher J. Colombo MD, CEC, CMC, CPP In our first installment, I broached the topic of firing. We started at the beginning and discussed our ground-rules for avoiding unnecessary negative emotional responses, and used that to discuss an approach to managing the initial emotions that come with getting fired. We left off with three steps...
So, Ya Got Fired…Part 1
Christopher J. Colombo MD, CEC, CMC, CPP Introduction Odds are you’ve been fired, cut, dumped, or ghosted—by a job, a team, a person, or an institution—even though you thought you were good/great/vital/pivotal/indispensable. Full disclosure: Me too. I’ll talk about it during this post (and the sequels), but not in gory detail. First off, much of...