Are you an ambivert?
I see people talking about Introversion vs Extroversion as if those terms represent facts about energy management. They don’t. They’re a descriptive model. You know the phrase, “All models are wrong, but some of them are useful”—? At the point a model...
Anger as a tool
Anger gets a bad rap, but like a lot of things, that’s a matter of personal opinion. Me, I think of anger as different from more intrinsic feelings like sadness or joy. Instead, anger is more like a tool that has three primary functions: To “protect” us from...
Solstice
Yesterday was the solstice, a time of transition. Lately, it seems like my life is nothing but transitions. As soon as I become accustomed to one thing, it changes, and then changes again. It’s a truism that nothing is constant but change, although there are...