CHAPTER 7
Optimising optimism
Balancing under- and over-confidence
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. HERM ALBRIGHT
I REMEMBER FEW DARKER DAYS OF the soul than those I spent hunting for a job during a harsh economy. Job hunting is humbling – and humiliating – and it tests you to the very core. As rejections and months of unemployment add up, a gnawing uncertainty makes you doubt who you are. When bills mount so does the pressure to settle for less, to take that job you swore was beneath you. But then, when you finally lower yourself to apply, you find that even that ...
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