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16 articles
- Shared Vulnerability: The Model, the Audit & the Studies They Both Point At
Carson cites Andreasen and Jamison as warrant. Schlesinger goes back to those originals. One number sits in both papers, meaning different things.
- The Group Mentoring Agreement: Rules We Wrote Before We Needed Them
A group agreement gets written on day one, while everyone still feels fine. That timing is the whole point, and it's the step most teams skip.
- The Opposing Processes Model Explains Why Competition Helps and Hurts at Once
I wrote that people thrive under competition, then scored full marks on a quiz saying the opposite. Same evening, same student, same model.
- Systems Don't Have Intentions: A Response to the Framework I Kept Resisting
I argued for weeks with a framework that locates harm in structures, not intent. My own class notes contained the diagnostic I refused to run on myself.
- Criterion A: The Trauma Definition I Defended & the Clause Written to Exclude It
I argued trauma should stay objectively defined. The revision I praised for being tighter was written specifically to exclude losses like mine.
- My Favorite Speech: A 90-Second Teardown of a Motivational Speech
A 90-second locker-room speech from a Hindi film showed me that persuasion can work by handing the stakes back to the people who were doubted.
- No Root Cause: What Coincidence Analysis Taught Me About Organizational Interventions
Coincidence Analysis taught me that organizational change may not have one root cause — just different sufficient recipes for the same outcome.
- The Personality Score I Didn't Pay For: A Big Five Snapshot & the Textbook Page That Found Me
A Big Five test and a textbook page gave me an accurate, uncomfortable read. Here is what I did with the pattern instead of hiding it.
- Brave Spaces vs. Safe Spaces: What Group Coaching Taught Me About Holding a Room
Two group-coaching reflections became an audit of overthinking, silence, and the word that caught me off guard.
- What My Career Anchors Said About the Work I Actually Want
My top two career anchors tied for first place. In Schein's model, they aren't supposed to be roommates.
- What My Cultural Intelligence Assessment Said — and Whether It Was Right
A self-scored culture test labeled me a 'Chameleon.' The honest part was where my own scores disagreed with each other.
- Exploring Psychopathology: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
A film assignment taught me that addiction is rarely a single event — it's the cumulative result of pressure, pain, and lost connection.
- Looking Inward: What a BuzzFeed Quiz Taught Me About Myself
My professor assigned us a BuzzFeed quiz. I took it twice. I got 'underprivileged' twice. Here is what I found when I stopped pretending otherwise.
- My Power Audit: What I Found When I Examined My Own Influence at Work
A one-page assignment asked me to audit my workplace power. What I found was mostly a map of my own anxiety.
- Gender & Competitiveness: Not More. Not Less. Just Different.
Men and women compete differently — not more or less. These are my generalized views drawn from weekly readings and research in my course work.
- Persuasive Speech: Outline & Self-Evaluation
A persuasive speech assignment taught me to build an outline that does the heavy lifting — and that mid-speech corrections are just negotiating for clarity.