Agency is owning our response — which begins by accepting even the circumstances we'd most like to reject. 

There's a quiet belief that separates people who move through hard circumstances from people who get stuck in them. It isn't optimism, and it isn't confidence. It's a particular relationshi...

Most high performers do not armor up because they are arrogant. They armor up because it worked.

Somewhere along the way — a hostile board, a founder breakup, a childhood that rewarded competence and punished need — they learned that showing the seam is expensive. So they built a surface: certain...