It’s that time of the year again. Spotify Wrapped is here and everyone seems delighted with the fact that one single company knows their entire music history from the previous year. Haley Weiss from the Atlantic calls it “an impressive display of consumer trust at a moment when our faith…

Take a moment to consider how much you’ve learned this year. How your conceptions of hygiene, social etiquette, workplace interaction, daily commute and holidays have changed. Maybe your own job has been transformed — as the world order was turned upside down, it might have been declared unnecessary or perceived…

In 1962, way before the Internet would make it possible to watch other people cooking, playing, reorganizing their closets or remodelling their houses, Albert Bandura introduced the term vicarious learning (known today as observational learning) to refer to the process of acquiring new information, skills or behavior through watching the…

“I went to bed at 11 pm, then woke up at 1 am to watch the episode. At 3 am my head hurt like hell but I was so excited I couldn’t go back to sleep.” These words came from a young woman sitting next to me in a restaurant…

Your wedding is supposed to be one of the happiest days of your life. For any introvert, it can very well become one of the most exhausting ones too. …

For the past decade or so, the concept of self-improvement has gained impressive steam and paved the way to the rise of an industry that is estimated to generate profits of ten billion dollars a year. The hype might have started somewhere around 2011, when the United Nations adopted a…

It’s hard to be sad in 2019. There’s ‘good vibes only’ posters everywhere. Pessimism is unwelcome in most contexts. Not even the psychotherapist’s office seems to be a safe emotional outlet anymore. …

A year ago, in January 2018, I felt like I had everything under control: I was about to take an important step in my personal life, I had found a simple practice to deal with my chronic pain, I was at peace with the challenges of friendships, and I had…

Over the last couple of years, I’ve developed a weird obsession with biographies. It all started when a friend casually shared an opinion: You know, bookstores shouldn’t have a specific section for biographies. Instead, biographies should be labeled according to the main lesson to be learned from that person’s life. …