SAMANTHAMARET.COM

jkrimmel.com

You Tell Yourself Stories. Make Sure They're The Right Ones. - {jeff}krimmel

http://www.jkrimmel.com/2015/06/04/you-tell-yourself-stories-make-sure-theyre-the-right-ones

Learning about life, one lesson at a time. You Tell Yourself Stories. Make Sure They’re The Right Ones. A couple of weeks ago, I published a post on LinkedIn. About the stories you tell yourself. Stories help us make sense of the world. We’re wired to tell stories about everything that happens in our lives. We take great liberties. Facts are few and far between. Many possible stories exist that align with these few facts. This entry was posted in Career Development. June 4, 2015. On Monte Carlo Simulatio...

jkrimmel.com

Productivity Archives - {jeff}krimmel

http://www.jkrimmel.com/category/productivity

Learning about life, one lesson at a time. Growth Doesn’t Always Mean Getting Bigger. I just published a post. On LinkedIn. The gist is that when we think of growth, we too often think of getting bigger. Certainly that’s the case for large, recognizable companies. Growth for them almost exclusively means increasing their size. But for smaller companies, or individual people, the most important growth comes from getting better. If you want more details, head on over to LinkedIn to see the full post. The f...

jkrimmel.com

Is Supermax Prison Worse Than Death? - {jeff}krimmel

http://www.jkrimmel.com/2015/05/07/is-supermax-prison-worse-than-death

Learning about life, one lesson at a time. Is Supermax Prison Worse Than Death? I read an article on NBC News this morning: Boston Bomber Tsarnaev Faces Prison Hell if He Escapes Execution. Then I had a natural question: is supermax prison worse than death? What life is like in a supermax prison. I’ve had this thought before. One idea behind any death sentence is it’s the strongest punishment imaginable. But is that true? Are there some forms of prison that could be worse than death? I think so, particul...

jkrimmel.com

Jeff Krimmel, Author at {jeff}krimmel

http://www.jkrimmel.com/author/jeff-krimmelgmail-com

Learning about life, one lesson at a time. Author Archives: Jeff Krimmel. Empower Yourself. Don’t Flatter Yourself. I published a post on LinkedIn. Earlier this week. It’s about story-telling. Specifically, it’s about the need to tell ourselves the stories that give us the most power, not the ones that flatter us the most. What’s a flattering story? Something like “I’m the greatest, and if other people don’t notice, that’s their fault.” An empowering story? Is about these kinds of story-telling. When I t...

jkrimmel.com

Growth Doesn't Always Mean Getting Bigger - {jeff}krimmel

http://www.jkrimmel.com/2015/05/12/growth-doesnt-always-mean-getting-bigger

Learning about life, one lesson at a time. Growth Doesn’t Always Mean Getting Bigger. I just published a post. On LinkedIn. The gist is that when we think of growth, we too often think of getting bigger. Certainly that’s the case for large, recognizable companies. Growth for them almost exclusively means increasing their size. But for smaller companies, or individual people, the most important growth comes from getting better. If you want more details, head on over to LinkedIn to see the full post.

jkrimmel.com

Empower Yourself. Don't Flatter Yourself. - {jeff}krimmel

http://www.jkrimmel.com/2015/10/01/empower-yourself-dont-flatter-yourself

Learning about life, one lesson at a time. Empower Yourself. Don’t Flatter Yourself. I published a post on LinkedIn. Earlier this week. It’s about story-telling. Specifically, it’s about the need to tell ourselves the stories that give us the most power, not the ones that flatter us the most. What’s a flattering story? Something like “I’m the greatest, and if other people don’t notice, that’s their fault.” An empowering story? Is about these kinds of story-telling. This entry was posted in Personal.

jkrimmel.com

Seymour Hersh Wants You To Get To The Point - {jeff}krimmel

http://www.jkrimmel.com/2015/05/15/seymour-hersh-wants-you-to-get-to-the-point

Learning about life, one lesson at a time. Seymour Hersh Wants You To Get To The Point. Isaac Chotiner interviewed Seymour Hersh. For Slate. Hersh is a journalist who controversially accused the Obama administration of lying about the capture of Osama Bin Laden. Chotiner published an edited transcript of his conversation with Hersh as the Slate story. One really interesting part is when Chotiner tries to dive more deeply into an answer Hersh gave:. Hersh reminds me of business executives. Even though I w...

jkrimmel.com

Success Archives - {jeff}krimmel

http://www.jkrimmel.com/category/success

Learning about life, one lesson at a time. Ronda Rousey Shows The One Thing You Need To Succeed. I published a post on LinkedIn. Today, explaining how Ronda Rousey shows the one thing you need to succeed. That one thing? Committing to a goal without the guarantee of success. For more details, read my whole post. This entry was posted in Career Development. August 3, 2015. Being Competitive Is Overrated and Overdone. Last week I published a post on LinkedIn. The other problem is the separation between com...

jkrimmel.com

At Home, We're Human. At Work, We're Not. That's a Problem. - {jeff}krimmel

http://www.jkrimmel.com/2015/07/01/at-home-were-human-at-work-were-not-thats-a-problem

Learning about life, one lesson at a time. At Home, We’re Human. At Work, We’re Not. That’s a Problem. Yesterday I published a post on LinkedIn titled “At Home, We’re Human. At Work, We’re Not. That’s a Problem.”. The post is about how we try to be superhuman at work. We pretend we don’t have weaknesses. We don’t behave or act like we do at home, when we’re most human. Thanks for stopping by. I really appreciate it. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. July 1, 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. I'm Jef...