HANS GROSS

We should work to distance ourselves from our own problems by adopting a fly-on-the-wall perspective and act as our own advisors.

Another distancing technique is to pretend that our decision is someone else's and visualize it from his or her perspective. B...

Our modern society is the product of specialization. Albert Einstein may have been less able to come up with general relativity if he also had to grow his own food and sew his own clothes. Perhaps time constraints would have prevented him from reaching the depths of thinking required. If we e...

We have to ask in what fundamental ways our own character have been shaped (for better or worse) by our work.

When we consider how work shapes a person, we should not be so quick to blame other people for the way they are. Perhaps their job has made them s...