Personal Development

Now, more than ever, in the era of the digital screen, we need to ensure that the next generation is not only being raised as readers but that we are encouraging them to read. Reading is an activity that is powerfully pleasurable, utterly unique, and irreplaceable in its psychological form, and it offers children an […]

What to Do If Your Inner Voice is Cruel Photo by Jason Rosewell on Unsplash I see chatter as one of the most common problems we humans experience as a species. We spend between a third and a half of each day, when we are awake, not living the present moment. What are you doing when

Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash It’s 5pm and you remember that report you have to do tomorrow. Time to get down to work — but wait, maybe you should just check your phone first. Or look at that YouTube channel you like. Or make dinner, for that matter — you’ll be less stressed if your belly is full. But

Photo by Pat Whelen on Unsplash Habits — many of us have some we’d like to extinguish. The problem is, even the most unpleasant habits can be hard to break. Yet coaxing people to alter everything from the way they react to temptation to how they perceive certain foods can have a profound impact on their eating habits.

How do I overcome that? Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash In a 2019 study, over 400 participants were enlisted to learn a mysterious, invented language. Individuals were asked about three pairs of runes. For example, which of these two characters represents an animal? Then, after a brief break, they were asked about the same rune pairs

Photo by DESIGNECOLOGIST on Unsplash The dark triad refers to three personality traits in the field of psychology: Narcissism, Psychopathy and Machiavellianism. If you were to ask the three of them: ‘who among us would have the darkest personality?’, the Narcissist would probably reply ‘me’, the Psychopath would probably say ‘I don’t care’ and the Machiavellian

How a narcissist think and do your communication strategy aptures the dynamic of ordinary but often pathological self-absorption that’s the central concept in the word ‘narcissism’. And narcissism is not just a personality type (the topic of advice columns). It’s a pattern of characteristics identified and studied by psychologists. Photo by Sander Sammy on Unsplash The

How to manage your emotions Photo by Tengyart on Unsplash You and your friend are studying for an exam throughout the week in preparation for the test on Friday, which you both did pretty well on. Now, the two of you are confident that you will indeed pass the class and that you won’t end up

There are times when the drumbeat of ‘change’ is so loud that we forget that one of the best forms of change, ‘improvement’ in other words, includes an honest assessment and an acceptance of who we are. There are so many forces at work pushing change on us—to be thinner, richer, taller, more successful, more

Want a ray of sunshine in your life.Changing a few settings can add a bit of spark to your life.Moving to a new town, starting a new career, losing weight after yo-yo dieting over the past 15 years, can add spark to life. Change is like an adventure. Can you really transform your life in