Understanding ourselves and the world we live in.
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Provided by K.A.L.T from Kalt In Thought I’m sure that many of us are guilty of overthinking. We assess our every action and regret any action that brings about a not so favorable consequence. However, doing so is nothing more than pointless overthinking. Why is it pointless? It is because no matter …
You lose your aims as fast as you make them I’ve seen many publications where they specify their writing goals and aims. The criteria for the articles they’ll be accepting and other stuff. But as pubs grow older, they stop bothering on what you’re submitting. (Good news for us! Trash em’ up!) The guidelines and criteria …
We live in a society and it seems that whatever the majority of the society does and thinks is viewed as normal. But how appropriate that is? Just because most people do it in a certain way, does that mean we all should do it? Should we accept whatever people think it’s normal as …
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill But how? What can we do to keep our enthusiasm whenever we encounter some sort of failure or when we make mistakes? How can we handle all those negative emotions like guilt and shame? I believe this is actually the …
By Ramon Colon http://www.zerowastedude.com This year I realized how big of a problem we have with the waste we produce. If you search for any waste topic, within minutes you will become overwhelmed and depressed. You will be buried in images and videos showing you what our grandparents, parents and ourselves have done to the …
The whole point of psychology is to understand the human being, but sometimes it drifts away from this and it tends to see a person as a bunch of projected theories. Some years ago, a dude called Rollo May said something like “F*ck this sh*t! I’m going to make psychology about humans again!” and …
Oh, frustrations. Sweet f*cked up frustrations. This stupid entity that stands between a happier life and us. Of course, it’s not the only one, but it’s an important one. I want to reblog a post I wrote a while back about frustrations because we cannot get rid of it. Living life would be easier …
“Well, to assure the security of your property sir, you must sign here in this stupid little box. But, after you read the terms and conditions inscribed in the tiniest font so that no one dares to read it.” We immediately sign it to safeguard our property from any sort of damage and mishap. All …
Since we enjoyed some beautiful content about cognitive biases lately, I’d like to approach another bias we “love” to do. It’s about assumptions. We assume. A lot. Whenever there is something we don’t have information about, we fill in the blanks with whatever we believe to be real based on our past experiences. …
