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Akash Kanojia

The Three Faces of Anger: Passion, Hate, and the Drive to Make a Difference (Part 1 of 2)

Anger, like all emotions, is a source of information. This piece explores what anger is telling us about what is happening around us--violation of boundaries, injustice, or unmet expectations.

Looking Back to Move Forward: What Childhood Talents Say About You Today

Many people struggle to identify what their unique gifts and strengths are, but our childhood provides a clue. Use this exercise to reflect on your childhood, and bring the unusual aptitudes you had as a kid into your adult life.

The Career Cube: Are You Ignoring Two-Thirds of What Matters?

Being satisfied in one's career requires alignment between our knowledge, our functional skills, and our interpersonal skills. The latter--interpersonal skills, or how we relate to others--is often ignored, and we suffer because of it.

The Tension Between Creativity and Money

Creative and artistic people often feel a tension between making what they want to make, and making money. We can resolve this tension by first asking ourselves, "who are we serving?"

The Opposite of Being in the Zone

Many of us seek a flow state in our work. However, we often also encounter an emotional state I call the “panic state,” where nothing we do seems to work. By relaxing into the sense of overwhelm, and introducing small successes, we can gradually overcome the panic state.

The Importance of Feedback

We all understand the importance of feedback but few of us stop to recognize our own emotional experience as we are in the process of receiving feedback. Moreover, the absence of feedback itself can be lonely and isolating.

Finding the Joy in Working (Part 3 of 3)

Once we identify what makes us happy and what stresses us out, we can start to bridge the gap between the two. Mindsets are a powerful tool to help us focus on the right things and make the decisions that serve us in the long run.

Finding the Joy in Working (Part 2 of 3)

Work is a source of stress for most people, but some find work to be a source of joy. This post dives into some of the sources of joy that people derive from their work. Which ones resonate for you?

Finding the Joy in Working (Part 1 of 3)

Work is stressful for most people, but it doesn't have to be. We can move from associating work with stress to associating it with joy by understanding the sources of both, and adopting a mindset that reinforces the work attitude we want to have.

A Look at Recession Indicators – 6 Aug 2024

With Friday’s soft jobs report and the subsequent selloff in stock markets, market pricing now implies over 150 basis points of cuts from the Federal Reserve over the coming year. The Fed would only cut rates that much if we see a significant slowdown in economic activity (I think