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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Career Stylists & The Power of Metaphors

November 25, 2011by David Lindskoog Leave a comment

If there’s one literary convention I love, it’s the metaphor. And I’m not the only one. I’ve written about metaphors here before – most recently in this post about emergence, […]

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My Fascination With Sigmund Freud

November 21, 2011by David Lindskoog Leave a comment

Of all the posts I’ve written, the one that seems to consistently get the most page views is this one on strengths and weaknesses, Freud, and Alfred Adler. I guess […]

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Money Makes You Less Motivated

November 12, 2011by David Lindskoog 2 Comments

Money is a terrible motivator. If I were to say to you, “Reader, I’d like you to come up with a creative way of solving this problem we have,” or […]

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Young and Pissed Off

November 6, 2011by David Lindskoog 2 Comments

“I’m young and I’m pissed off.” What a wonderful quotation, spoken by a student I saw recently. I was captured immediately by how much it conveyed, both cognitively and emotionally, […]

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Career advisor/counsellor and optimistic prairie boy stumbling through life on the left coast. I write about career development, post-secondary student issues, and whatever theories I'm currently enamoured with.

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