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“At all levels of income, the typical response is that one needs 20% more to be happy.” -Richard Easterlin The photographer’s equivalent to this statement is: “Whatever you charge for your work, the typical response is that you’re 20% too expensive.” Like clockwork, I’ve been told my photography is too expensive at $75, $100, $300,…
There was probably a time in human history when venturing into the unfamiliar was a bad idea. If you foraged for food in a forest, then yes, trying a new red berry that no one else ate was probably a recipe for disaster. We’re a little past foraging for berries now. And yet – people…
I remember the moment with icy clarity. I was sitting in a Women in Science luncheon at a Very Fancy Hotel during a Very Important Science Conference. A panel of professional scientists was discussing work-life balance, and one woman cracked a joke that ended my career in research psychology: She said, “I think about data…
I admit I once grew tired of people telling me: “live your passion.” Of all the vague, dime-store psychology directives, that is possibly the least useful. What does it mean to ‘live your passion’? What is a passion? What would it look like to ‘live’ one? Cut the fluff. I need concrete steps, not poster-speak.…