The Importance of Collaboration

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I think this sort of focus on your weaknesses, advice really makes sense if you're on your own doing your own thing. But in the world we live in that's so collaborative, it seems like if you're working in partnership in a team in some sort of community,. It makes so much more sense to find out what those strengths are and build those up with the idea that people have all sorts of values and strengths that they bring to the equation.

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To increase our chances of success (in whatever domain and using definition of success), should we focus on boosting our strengths or shoring up our weaknesses? Are we harsher in our critiques of ourselves than in our critiques of others? What should an ideal inner monologue be like? What are some useful taxonomies of pain? Are there times when irrational, magical, emotionally-driven, and/or delusional types of thinking are useful?

Anna Paley is insatiably curious about how best to live our lives. She is a behavioral scientist and marketing professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD from New York University, Stern School of Business in 2017. You can reach her at a.paley@tilburguniversity.edu.

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