guilt

  • How Your Guilt Can Actually Help You

    How Your Guilt Can Actually Help You

    After making a mistake, feeling guilt is a good thing — it means you have empathy. Sometimes our guilt is self-imposed and unhelpful, like after you let yourself relax and subsequently don’t feel productive enough. Other times, guilt is a powerful motivator to do better going forward, like after you fail to make time for…


  • How to Ease Your Guilt About ‘Failing Upwards’

    How to Ease Your Guilt About ‘Failing Upwards’

    There’s a certain type of person in the workplace who often carries a loathsome reputation: the colleague who succeeds in big ways despite not being good at their job. These people have “failed upwards,” meaning they’ve attained undue success, sometimes from sheer luck, or maybe thanks to a savvy networking ability or certain workplace alliances.


  • How To Make Your Kid Feel Guilty (In A Good Way)

    How To Make Your Kid Feel Guilty (In A Good Way)

    Guilt is a crummy emotion, one that most of us try to avoid, either by not doing things we would be ashamed of (stealing lollies, cheating on our spouses) or by rationalising our actions so that guilt can be safely ignored (I needed a treat; my spouse is mean to me). But guilt is actually…