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Tell Me about Yourself

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By Adrian Cho, Ph.D. “Tell me about yourself.” No other set of four words have quite the same potential to conjure up existential angst. It’s really asking, “Who are you?” Considering the question…
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The “Explosive” Truth about Fit

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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. When J. Robert Oppenheimer began attending Harvard University as an undergraduate in 1922, he had only recently recovered from a serious gastrointestinal illness (Wikipedia…
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Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side

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By Caroline Matas, Ph.D. When I was a kid, there weren’t nearly as many screens making demands on my time and attention as today’s teenagers face. That didn’t stop me from gravitating toward the…
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Leadership Is about Choices, Not Titles

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. Leadership. It’s one of those qualities that nearly everyone feels that they should possess. After all, we admire leaders. We follow leaders. We look to leaders to give…
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The Neurodiversity Perspective

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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. This one’s personal for me. While I’ve never hidden my own neurodiversity, I’ve also never before addressed it in a public forum like this one. But part of my neurodiversity…
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A Beautiful (Organized) Mind

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By Adrian Cho, Ph.D. “All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still.” –Barbara Kingsolver When I was in high school, I didn’t keep any notes. In my youthful arrogance, I…
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Killing Your Darlings

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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and…
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