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Impulsive Mind: Understanding Our Little Egomaniacs adult development

Presumably, you have no six-year-olds on your project team (although you might have colleagues who lead you to believe otherwise on occasion). So, as ...

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What We Know Vs. How We Know It adult development

Jean Piaget characterized discrete stages of childhood cognitive development. Robert Kegan studies adult development, and has identified ongoing stage...

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Glitches in The Matrix: A Demand for Lifelong Development adult development

When you were 18 months old, you had the world all figured out. You could see, hear, feel, touch, and taste things. You could walk. You could make sou...

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Practicing the Fundamentals: The Subject-Object Shift adult development

What do streamline, color theory, anatomy, and arpeggios have in common?

If you guessed “fundamentals,” you get a gold star. Streamline is fundamenta...

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Behavior Change: The Problem Is a Solution

As of this week, it has been one year since I stopped drinking. As a person who has long been self-critical for my perceived lack of willpower, discip...

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Mornings with Martha: A Company Is A Social Group mornings with martha

We fool ourselves into separating social/personal from work/business. But a company is just a group of people. It is personal. It's all personal. It c...

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The Same Conversation Is the Wrong Conversation

A member of your project team—let’s call him Flash—fails to complete an important task by the agreed-upon date. You have a cordial conversation, and h...

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Mornings with Martha: Empathy mornings with martha

Empathy has long been a soft skill that's overlooked as a performance indicator. Top companies across industries —think, places you might like to work...

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Why Do People Make Such Stupid Decisions? decision making

These are my feet. Because I know you were all just thinking, “what I’d really like right now is a photo of Greg’s feet.” Bear with me.

Specifically,...

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Mornings with Martha: The Clearing mornings with martha

Retexo co-owner Martha Walker explains how very conference room, boardroom, or Zoom room is like a clearing in the woods. In our encounters both with ...

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Untangling Our Reactions to Titan and the Other Disaster

Four days in June, 2023 will be remembered for two maritime disasters — maybe. The world was rapt in suspense when the Titan submersible disappeared o...

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Mornings with Martha: Personality Tests mornings with martha

Personality tests, and personality psychology in general, are topics fraught with controversy. This morning, Retexo co-founder Martha Walker discusses...

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How To Find Your (Literal) Blind Spots

Did you know you have a blind spot in each eye? And that your brain hides it from you?

None of us see the world as it is, but only as we interpret it...

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Unless You Are an Octopus, You Have Blind Spots

Our eyes are amazing things, but it is our brains that are truly miraculous. The mind — our conscious experience — arises from our brains.1, 2 Thus un...

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Mornings with Martha: Things Turn Out... mornings with martha

Need to call employees back to the office? Or maybe you're being called back yourself? Retexo co-owner Martha Walker offers a quick, positive affirmat...

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What Is Emotional Intelligence? emotional intelligence

What is emotional intelligence and why do we care?

Retexo offers tools for personal, interpersonal, and cultural growth. The context in which we prov...

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Mornings with Martha: The Importance of Positive Feedback mornings with martha

"You will never get people to perform better by making them feel worse." Retexo co-owner Martha Walker explores a different approach to the topic of "...

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We Got Hacked

We got hacked. And while IT security is certainly not our typical blog content, I thought it worth sharing in hope that it might spare a fellow busine...

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Mornings with Martha: Avoiding the Ego Trap mornings with martha

Does your instinct to defend and protect who you are, today, thwart your ability to grow into who you need to become? Retexo co-owner Martha Walker di...

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Mornings with Martha: They Climb Highest mornings with martha

Leaders, supervisors, managers... Does your job description include "lifting people up"? Why would it? What's in it for you? Retexo co-owner Martha Wa...

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Mornings with Martha: New Beginnings mornings with martha

Need a redo? A "redemption round"? Retexo co-owner Martha Walker discusses New Beginnings in business (and in the rest of our lives). What can you do ...

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Untangling Personality Tests

Personality tests, and personality psychology in general, are topics fraught with disagreement and controversy. In fact, it was only after much delibe...

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The Clearing

Witness, in this image, both the beginning and the end of my conversation with this suspicious whitetail buck. As soon as his eyes locked with mine, e...

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Bats and the Impossibility of Empathy

I can still hear the soft pops of rain falling on the brim of my hat as I walked along a muddy trail through a dark forest in Costa Rica lowlands, on ...

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