Here’s something that doesn’t make much logical sense.
I imagine that, at some point in your life, you worked on a task that felt really “make or break” to you.  Maybe it was a project for an important client at work, or perhaps you were a student and preparing to take a test worth a big [...]

I have a friend who is coming to the end of her graduate education.  Finally, six-odd years after she started her program, she’s about to give the last presentation on her dissertation and walk out a newly-minted Ph.D.  However, she’s having a problem—she can’t seem to make progress on the presentation.  She keeps rejecting every [...]