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The Price of Water: What Really Drives Worth

November 2, 2025 | Renée Fishman

The same bottle of water costs $1 in a grocery store and $7 on a plane. Here’s what you can learn from this about selling your offerings.

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: business, context, environment, marketing, offerings, perception, price, sales, value, worth

Who’s Really Being Negative?

December 14, 2024 | Renée Fishman

Often, our judgment that someone is being “negative” is not based on what the person said, but rather on the meaning we are ascribing to their words. Here’s how to break the cycle.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: communication, filters, interpretation, listening, meaning, mindfulness, perception, perspective, relationships, self-awareness, stories

In Defense of the Wicked Child

April 25, 2024 | Renée Fishman

If you’ve ever gotten in “trouble” or received pushback for raising the same questions or issues as another person raises, while they received praise, this one’s for you.

Filed Under: Coaching, Holidays Tagged With: bias, filters, four sons, holidays, identity, listening, Passover, perception, self-awareness, shadow, triggers, unconscious bias

Things Aren’t What They Appear To Be

September 13, 2019 | Renée Fishman

This full moon reminds us that our senses deceive us. We can’t always trust what we see, hear, and feel.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: belief, feelings, illusion, pain, perception, sensations, stories

Lessons on Time from the Holiday of Shavuot

May 21, 2018 | Renée Fishman

We can easily fall into the false beliefs that all units of time are equal, and that we must follow a prescribed timeline. But this belief ignores other facts about how we measure time.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: chronos, emotion, human time, Jewish holidays, kyros, linear time, perception, Shavuot, time

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