Anyone who is looking for professional employment in the current economy is probably familiar with how much information there is about the “proper” way to conduct a job search, including how much of this information can seem to be conflicting. If you have your resume reviewed by ten different people, you will get ten different […]
Brynne VanHettinga
When Freedom and Self-Reliance are No Longer Enough
Why are Americans so ambivalent about inequality? Our country was founded on a revolution against taxation without representation. It was also founded on the concept of equality, or the proposition that everyone had the same stake in national welfare and equal rights to participate and be heard. Our founding values of freedom and equality were […]
What Makes People “Exceptional”?
I had heard about Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers long before I actually decided to read it. My reluctance was due to the emphasis of reviewers—who tended to focus solely on the so-called 10,000 hour rule. That is, one does not have to be a born genius to master a particular activity (the example in the book […]
