The Belonging Lady writes from the Watercooler
One of the things I miss most about expat life is living in a country with only one TV station. The Belonging LadyTM LOVED watching the 9 pm novela with AN ENTIRE COUNTRY. And the awkward kid inside me was SO RELIEVED to have something to make small talk about with ANYONE! “Will Tiago ever realize he really loves Maria? Will Maria ever overcome the death of her mother?” stay tuned… In England, we had the BBC and whatever show was playing in the 9 pm slot that evening. Either we were dancing with Strictly, playing pranks with Michael McIntyre, or solving murders with some middle-aged, dumpy savant in the backwoods of Great Britain. We were together, united in our lack of choice. It’s rare that we have this opportunity in the USA to jump on a bandwagon. As I-O psychologists, we have our patron saint, Adam Grant, who we religiously follow and whose tagline (“Making work not suck”) we freely steal. As social science researchers, we devour every offering that Brene Brown serves ...