People form impressions of your personality in a matter of seconds. It’s not necessarily fair, but it’s reality. Especially in a professional setting, one thing you’ll want to immediately appear is ...

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to ask someone’s advice, but were worried you would look incompetent? Well, in the words of RuPaul, “Your fear of looking stupid is making you look ...

Competency – it’s a word we hear bantered about when we discuss workers’ knowledge, skills and aptitude with regard to safety. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a fully competent ...

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There seems to be an problem going on amongst middle and upper-middle-class parents which involves not just hovering and helicoptering but also downright coddling and intruding. Children from 2 to 32 ...

McMillan Cottom is the author of Thick: And Other Essays and is an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. The first dream for my imagined future self that I can recall ...