After his 3 year relationship broke, my friend asked me "So which one is more relevant in choosing a partner: feelings or rationality?" One blink and I had to answer "A bit of both." Some years ago when I was a bit more naive, I stumbled into a toxic relationship. After one year of struggling... Continue Reading →
Why should you consult a psychologist for your business
Everything we do is for people and by people.* When I speak about improving things about your business, often people think I mean working on workplace mental health improvement. That is not what I mean. Yet it is an easy assumption to make because if you know just a bit about psychology, you may have... Continue Reading →
The numbers will rise
The numbers will rise, stop staring at them. They grow and grow and we know the majority of real cases go undetected. I could infect my granny, you could infect yours, human contact is lava - avoid at all cost. You stare at the numbers, search for updates, try to make calculations. You seek out... Continue Reading →
Bias of dating
Going on dates is not a good way to find love. The process itself gets you biased if you do end up starting a relationship. One of the things that makes dating a fucked up business is the concept called relationship escalator. Dates - kiss - sex - relationship - moving in - getting married... Continue Reading →
Help. A call for more of it to the world
How do people succeed? If the measure of success is financial wealth, then generally and statistically, mostly it's people who don't have to work their asses off, who were born into money. SES a good measure for it has been studied a lot. Even the marshmallow test got somewhat invalidated because the best predictor for... Continue Reading →
Social code
I see you on the street. I know you know me. I say hello. Say hello, come on! Why do you hide your head? Pretend you didn't see? Isn't that a familiar situation? Isn't it familiar to occasionally do that to someone you're not quite sure they remember you or how they think of you,... Continue Reading →
Brain tawk is cheap
I need to share with you something important. If you want to think better and write better about your mind, consider the following: Neuroreductionism. Oh, what a nice complicated word! It is essentially assigning the properties of the mind to the brain. Saying that "my brain is so smart that it came up with such... Continue Reading →
What we all want
It's easy to fall prey to the belief that we want the things, goals, activities, people that we want because it defines us, because we free-willingly come up with these ideas, or destiny brings us to desire these. Whatever explanations people can come up with, there are a few points that can explain all our... Continue Reading →
The real reason why Finland tops everyone at PISA tests
Almost a decade ago, two researchers wanted to know why is it that despite Finland and Norway had very similar education systems, Finland thrived in PISA tests, yet Norway fell to the OECD mean. Norway had been the only Nordic country that had even fallen below that mean in 2005. Another peculiarity was that the... Continue Reading →
THE CERBERUS OF CONSCIOUSNESS – THE GUARD OF AWARENESS
This is the paper I wrote in Leiden for the Consciousness course. Introduction Will Stephen Hawking be conscious still if he loses control over his last healthy muscle? Most people who are acquainted with his thoughts would definitely agree that he will still be conscious, but locked in as if guarded by the multi-headed dog... Continue Reading →
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