by Marina von Bergen | Jan 14, 2019 | Communications
“Don’t take it personally.” When someone says that, the implication is that you’re being overly sensitive. You’re not separating your internal feelings from the objective external situation. Whatever “it” is, it’s not about you, so…well…get over it. I’d like to offer... 
by Marina von Bergen | Jul 22, 2018 | Communications, Marina's Musings
MARINA’S MUSINGS I call shorter, perspective-driven posts such as this my musing postings. They’re written without extensive research and provide me with a forum to share thoughts on topics that may (or may not) drift from my core areas of expertise.... 
by Marina von Bergen | May 1, 2018 | Emotional Intelligence
Given how popular the topic of emotional intelligence has become in the past two decades, I expected my Google search on “emotional intelligence” (EQ) to pull up over at least a million results. In 0.74 seconds, it only pulled up 701,000 results. “Only” is a relative... 
by Marina von Bergen | Apr 6, 2018 | General Interest
Before You Start… Notice how there was no annoying pop-up box asking you to subscribe to this site as soon as you landed here. That’s because I don’t like getting hit with those every time I read a blog page and don’t want to subject you to...