The author felt he had to be funny in order to be good enough. Source: Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. When I first started speaking professionally I would open every speech with five to ten minutes of ...

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It is the spring of 1971 and I am a 21 year old senior at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in economics. I believe psychology and psychotherapy are about some father or mother figure telling ...

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It's a simple question without an easy answer: "What should I do with my life?" "Most of us struggle with this our whole lives," writes Suzy Welch in the introduction to her recent book, "Becoming You ...

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At first glance, Yash Birla, chairman of the Yash Birla Group, is a study in contrasts: Versace-clad and gym-sculpted, yet ...