When employees are able to reconceptualize jealousy as a motivating force, this opens up new venues to address, overcome, and even capitalize on the feeling.
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Accepting that you are envious of someone is the first step to adopting a healthier response.
We’re supposed to suppress feelings of envy. But what if the kind spurred by school shutdowns, frontline work and cramped apartments are worth exploring – and acting upon?
Don’t swear off social media. Use it to your advantage.
The ‘like’ button does far more than just express how much a person likes a particular picture or post. It could be used to make social comparisons.
Greed is good. So is envy. So says Boris Johnson, who told the Centre for Policy Studies that the two deadly sins were “a valuable spur to economic activity”. Boris was invoking behavioural economics to…
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