Category: People
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Exploring Life Through Action Films | John Wick [Spoilers]
Read more: Exploring Life Through Action Films | John Wick [Spoilers]Action films aren’t my typical go-to (unless super hero movies count?). I’m the one who goes for dorky Disney Channel Original Movies, animated flicks, RomComs, family-aimed adventure movies, or films from decades-gone-by (especially if Don Knotts is involved). However, when my friends decided to watch through the John Wick trilogy, I decided to give it…
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The 10-Minute Test
Read more: The 10-Minute TestAs a psychological experiment, a friend challenged me to dialogue to him about anything that came to mind for 10 minutes straight. The catch? He would not react or reply. It would be just me and essentially dead silence as he listened. Then, we would swap places and he would dialogue for 10 minutes in…
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My Weird Coworkers: Chapter 1
Read more: My Weird Coworkers: Chapter 1I love my coworkers and the fact that we regularly acknowledge our mutual weirdness. Here are some of my favorite moments from the past year of work at Classical Conversations 🙂
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The Most Important Christmas Lesson I’ve Learned Yet
Read more: The Most Important Christmas Lesson I’ve Learned Yet“Why do your admins enjoy taking Christ out of Christmas?” the Twitter post read, publicly showing off a screencap of my photograph and name with an adjoining Facebook group post which I happened to close with “I hope you have a splendid holiday season!” I admit, I anticipated some amount of blowback when I had…
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What Does Value Creation Look Like?
Read more: What Does Value Creation Look Like?“Awareness, consideration, decision. We need content for people in each of these categories. Let’s each try to have a piece of content for each category by the time we have our meeting next week,” my boss told the marketing department yesterday. “And remember people’s pain-points. We want to help and create something valuable for folks.”…
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You Matter.
Read more: You Matter.Sometimes you matter a lot more than you think. Today was my last day at church before I move to North Carolina. During our snack break, a girl who attends there with me gave me the sweetest card. She is 12 and I am 24. I always thought she seemed pretty cool, though I didn’t…
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The Most Beneficial Free Personality Test I’ve Found
Read more: The Most Beneficial Free Personality Test I’ve FoundPersonality tests fascinate me, but they rarely offer much return for my time. Pretty much all the Facebook-shared personality tests are just for fun and give no truly useful information. The Meyers-Briggs test seems ok, but the results are never particularly useful to me. Plus, nearly every time I take it I seem to be…
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Fearlessness & Confidence: The Most Overvalued Traits
Read more: Fearlessness & Confidence: The Most Overvalued TraitsAn acquaintance of mine recently wrote a blog post about how irony is stunting your relationships. I agree with him, however, I think it goes deeper than that. Fearlessness and confidence are overvalued by our society. Everybody idolizes those people who appear unshakable. Everyone gets coached on how they need to present themselves with confidence…
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What We Can Learn From Nerd Weddings
Read more: What We Can Learn From Nerd WeddingsAs I’ve watched friends get married over the past several years (and watched other friends plot what their dream weddings would look like), I’ve come to a conclusion… Nerds have the best weddings. So much of the time, every wedding feels the same. Flowers, candles, sometimes bells. Fancy outfits and food, elegant yet serious…
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Internet Friends: How to Keep Connected From Afar
Read more: Internet Friends: How to Keep Connected From AfarAs a child I grew up hearing horror stories about all the creeps from the internet who would kidnap young ladies. I had all the warnings that many 90’s/early 2000’s kids got about how one should never meet anyone from the internet. Yet somehow, despite all of this, I now find myself in the year…