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That's an interesting take. My shrink is not very keen on that style of outing, his thinking being that unless you have an actual mental illness that makes you disconnect from reality, you have to take ownership of your life, and labels are a way to skirt your responsibilities. That does mean adapting your life to whom you are, wether you have an identified quirk (ex. ADHD) or some kind of non-pathological personality trait (ex. "I want to paint canvas all day long").

Maybe we need more CEOs who never emails, maybe we need also CEOs who do everything by email, so that workers have a range of choices on the kind of companies they work for. The counterpoint, of coure, is that culture tends to uniformise everything.




The article is literally all about how Bassoul has adapted his work to who he is.

Does your shrink have the same objection to the label "arthritis"?




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