Managing change effectively doesn’t eliminate background conversations; rather, it surfaces those conversations. Ambivalence ...

In an earlier post, I discussed the difficulty of dealing with consciously ambivalent feelings. But now I would like to focus on a more pernicious type of ambivalence — unconscious ambivalence. People ...

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." - Isaac Newton Looking at the conflicting US macro data from PPI (-0.5% Mom when consensus was 0.1%), to ...

Each of us is full of inconsistencies and inconstancies. Looking back at our own lives, each of us would not see uniformity but diversity and multiplicity. The philosopher Montaigne (1533-1592) notes, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Mixed feelings in relationships can stem from unresolved ...