A few years ago I was stuck in a job I hated, telling anyone who would listen how exhausted I was. Every morning I said the same thing out loud: "I'm so tired of this." Every single morning, out loud, ...

An old professor of mine once demonstrated to me that if I described a headache out loud—its color and shape, what substance it was made of, what it would say if it were a 6-year-old—it would often ...