“I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.” BelieveIdeasSpeakI BelieveDoubtEmotionalReaderRationalEssaysBe ConfidentInvokeUnderratedPersonal EssaysGreat Freedom Author:Marty Nemko
“If you don't know what career you'd change to, I've come to believe in starting with your values. What do you care most about: producing a new product, a cause, health, something unpopular but important, whatever. Next, get expertise in that, perhaps not at State U let alone private U but at You U: self-study, articles,, webinars, volunteering, etc. Then use your network rather than answering ads to land a launchpad job in that career.” IfsKnowsBelieveImportantSelfStatesUseCareJobsValuesNextCausesCareersStudyLandProductsStartingEtcArticlesAdsVolunteerExpertiseNew ProductsDo You Care Author:Marty Nemko
“We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.” PeopleWantGivingBelieveLyingEqualEras Author:Marty Nemko
“I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done by PhDs, who by temperament, training, interests, and rewards are researchers first. So they spend most of their time and energy probing a snip of a field's cutting edge. In my view, the attributes needed to be a transformative undergraduate instructor are pretty orthogonal to that. It would seem that undergraduate education would be superior if there was a separate track for teaching faculty.” BelieveDoneProblemEnergyI BelieveInterestCuttingTeachingTrainingTrackTemperamentTime And EnergyCutting Edge Author:Marty Nemko
“Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear of authority.” BelieveRealProblemAuthorityLazinessFear Of Failure Author:Marty Nemko
