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Ana Vargas Santos
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Feb 17, 2022

Losing your taste as a Chef: Ideas to prevent knowledge loss

“I was either unable to taste anything, or everything tasted like loose change. It’s the scariest thing imaginable, losing my ability to taste. If you lose your palate you stop tasting the world. It happens to me a few times a year, and now, at the end of the night…

Knowledge Management

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Losing your taste as a Chef: Ideas to prevent knowledge loss
Losing your taste as a Chef: Ideas to prevent knowledge loss
Knowledge Management

3 min read


Dec 17, 2021

Spotify Wrapped: who’s listening?

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…

Spotify

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Spotify Wrapped: who’s listening?
Spotify Wrapped: who’s listening?
Spotify

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Aug 17, 2020

Julia Child: a role-model for lifelong learning

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…

Learning

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Julia Child: a role-model for lifelong learning
Julia Child: a role-model for lifelong learning
Learning

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Apr 30, 2020

Is vicarious learning saving us from pandemic boredom?

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…

Learning

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Is vicarious learning saving us from pandemic boredom?
Is vicarious learning saving us from pandemic boredom?
Learning

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Aug 21, 2019

Your sleep is under threat. Here’s why

“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…

Netflix

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Your sleep is under threat. Here’s why
Your sleep is under threat. Here’s why
Netflix

6 min read


Jun 4, 2019

An introvert bride’s survival guide to her own wedding

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. …

Introvert

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An introvert bride’s survival guide to her own wedding
An introvert bride’s survival guide to her own wedding
Introvert

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May 2, 2019

Guilt in the era of Positive Psychology

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…

Positive Psychology

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Guilt in the era of Positive Psychology
Guilt in the era of Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology

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Feb 27, 2019

The emotional complexity Manifesto

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. …

Emotions

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The emotional complexity Manifesto
The emotional complexity Manifesto
Emotions

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Jan 17, 2019

I had to learn gratitude the hard way. You don’t

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…

Gratitude

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I had to learn gratitude the hard way. You don’t
I had to learn gratitude the hard way. You don’t
Gratitude

5 min read


Sep 29, 2018

Why should anyone read a biography?

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. …

Books

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Why should anyone read a biography?
Why should anyone read a biography?
Books

5 min read

Ana Vargas Santos

Ana Vargas Santos

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HR Research Partner. I write about learning and career management.

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