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Tuesday’s Tip: Insecure is OK, Meek is Not

Let’s face it, no matter what anybody says, everybody, to greater or lesser degrees, is insecure. How can we not be? We’re thrown into the big bad world, with people and events and billboards and malls and technology and relationships and escalators and rebate coupons–it’s a lot! The world is big and we are relatively …

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Even Einstein Hired Consultants

Some folks bemoan the fact that students take test prep classes or use application consulting services, claiming that their score is an inflated representation of their ability. Or that their personal statement is “not really them”. To them we say that using this sort of logic is like saying that Kobe Bryant is cheating because he uses a shooting coach, …

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Tuesday’s Test Tip: Where Laziness Is Rewarded

There is a famous notion about business and life–the Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule)–which states that, for most events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Pareto, an Italian economist, discovered that 80% of the land around him, at any one time, was owned by just 20% of the …

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