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25 Feb 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Dastan
1. Consistent Timing Set aside specific time constraints for one given activity. E.g. showering from 8-8:15. If you do this every day your brain and body will get accustomed to it and crave showering every time 8h comes around. Why? Because our brain...
25 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ReviewAndAnalysisChris [CH]
When my finance students ask me to describe the right way to answer a question, I always remember an apocryphal story about a physics student at the University of Copenhagen who once faced the following challenge: Describe how to determine the height...
22 Feb 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Dastan
There’s an old Woody Allen quotation that “80% of success is just showing up.” This quotation is used to motivate people to get started on what they want to achieve and has even helped me when thinking about the significance of competition (turns out...
20 Feb 2020 4 minute read 2 comments Anna_M
Gaslighting is a cruel and treacherous mental manipulation technique. There is violence that is not made of expressed anger, on the contrary, it is insidious, made of hostile silences alternating with pungent words. It is an ancient form of abuse, pe...
20 Feb 2020 2 minute read 15 comments Anna_M
Have you ever realized that everything that happens in your mind - every thought, feeling, sensation, everything you are aware of - is actually happening only in your private internal world? Your thoughts appear only to you and are not listened to by...
19 Feb 2020 6 minute read 0 comments Anna_M
An Argentine philosopher and psychoanalyst Miguel Benasayag, who has lived in Paris for many years, whose works are also partly translated into Italian, and a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry Gérard Schmit who teaches at the University of...
18 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Dastan
People want to be liked. This sounds like a truism, which of course it is. With very rare exceptions such as clinically diagnosable sociopaths—who I'm not going to advise on without professional qualifications—people would rather be liked than not li...
18 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments 3rd Dog Script crypto
Source cover image CCO Creative Commons "Perception is not reality, but, admittedly, perception can become a person’s reality (there is a difference) because perception has a potent influence on how we look at reality." - Psychology Today This amazi...
17 Feb 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Dastan
You have promised yourself not to take that extra chocolate chip cookie, then, 10 minutes later you are staring with awe at its empty case… You have promised yourself to go jogging in the evening and suddenly the laziness monster creeps in and dissua...
17 Feb 2020 2 minute read 2 comments pedrobrito2004
Source In the 90s, I read a book by an MIT psychologist that I think I remember titled "Reflections of the Self: Building Identity in the Virtual World" or something in that style, unfortunately I read it in a library and now I don't I have it at han...
