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Nominees

Owner: Stefan

State the pattern the term names.

Add one concrete work, career, or identity example.

Explain what becomes visible once the “prerequisite” is recognized as presumed rather than necessary.

Owner: Stefan

State the pattern the term names.

Add one concrete work, career, or identity example.

Distinguish it from advice, convention, and an actual requirement.

A researched half-draft contrasting staying power with performative desk time.

Stefan to add:

The Mexico story and the context in which you first heard hora(s) nalga.

Confirmation from a native speaker or strong Mexican source about phrasing and regional usage.

A decision: one comparative entry or two linked entries.

The substantive entry already exists in Words at Work.

Verify or omit the quotation about regretting what we do not do, sometimes attributed to Mark Twain.

Decide whether “regret management matters more than risk management” is the defining claim, a hypothesis, or both.

A Japanese term associated with “spark joy,” heart-fluttering, and flourishing.

Verify the translation and grammatical form with a strong Japanese-language source.

Clarify the distinct Words at Work angle beyond tidying and Marie Kondo.

Add the intended German meaning and context.

Explain why this word earns a place in Words at Work.

Identity Paralysis — confirmed as a phrase in circulation; connected cautiously to established identity-transition research.
Peter Principle — established management concept with empirical support.
Terror Management Theory — established social-psychological theory.
Thumos / Thymos — established Greek concept, presented with its semantic range intact.

Fingerspitzengefühl
Stefan: Was this one of the words discussed with the UW German contact? #UltraWorking
Sisu
Ganbaru
Töörõõm
Arbejdsglæde

Thumos follow-up: revisit Francis Fukuyama’s Identity and confirm his spelling and use of the concept.
Got Thumos? — accessible secondary treatment retained from the original notes.