Psychology

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Have you ever wondered why people are bouncing from your nearly-frictionless onboarding flow? Why the same change can result in a lift on one page and cause drop-off on another? Or why people who find you via search bounce away after a few moments?

An illustrated overview of how our brains (might) think — the fascinating intuition of the generative predictive model

“Perception is controlled hallucination.”

— Andy Clark

Guys, we need to talk about Lady Anne de Bourgh

Is the milquetoast Pride & Prejudice side character a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy? PROBABLY NOT but I’d like to discuss it nevertheless.

Achilles’ Wrath: Why It Matters For Economic Psychology

Mining “The Iliad” for economic insight

What It Means to Be an Adult

And The Adult Conversation I Had With Mom Before Her Suicide Attempt

7 Habits of Highly Successful Presenters

When was the last time you gave a pitch, taught a class, led a professional development…

Five Lessons From Humanistic Psychology That Will Facilitate Personal Growth

3 Months in Nepal Ascendance • Adventure • Acceptance

The Timing of the Mental Health Crisis Couldn’t Be Worse for Generation X.

The Four Factors that Adversely Affect the Mental Well Being of Generation X

Creativity, Energy and the Zeigarnik Effect

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway

In a recent short video Chicago Booth’s Linda Ginzel discusses how Hemingway leveraged the psychological phenomenon known as…

It’s amazing we are living in a time where young students, having little experience in adult life, armed with just empirical facts and having little growth and consciousness yet of this journey, take such pride in destroying their elders. It reminds me of communist china and mao’s use of students to decimate the educators and their ancient culture…

Everyone is doing there best but you still suck.

Why it’s better to be underestimated than over estimated.

Its not a typo if you did it to attract attention.

My header here is clickbait. It will deter people that can’t handle people that can’t…

When The Kiddie Pool Closes For Emergency Maintenance — You Know What That Really Means…

And The Art Of Reading Between The Lines

The Human Psyche Is Out Of Sync With The Universal Law That Created It.

On many levels the human mindset is out of sync with reality and the universal law of probability balance. No matter how bad things may look at the moment there is always a part of average humans that will…

Self Delusion

If you are an aspiring writer or artist and if you are like me, you probably live in constant self-doubt. You keep analyzing your work…

The Importance of Affordances

The Web as a Metaphor

Duolingo Streak Test

BRAIN, BODY & BELIEF: The Nature of Consciousness

In the past few years, reports of tragedies caused by mental illnesses have put the spotlight on the inadequate attention paid to brain function.

Faith is often the last resort for the perplexed and suffering. Yet little rigorous empirical research…

The secret fate of all mankind — Numbers

Through the dawn of mankind, Numbers have been an integral part of our progress and yet…

Why are people irrational and how can this be used in sports?

When we carry out the projects, our clients quite often try to hear a clear explanation on why people are actually irrational. Especially when any person who studied the economy, faced with a reverse approach, which…

Mike, because I enjoy your poetry and writing, I have come to know you are a Veteran. If you have a group of 30 kids, maybe 1 of them could cut it in the military. A very small percentage of individuals have the toughness to be warriors, and you are among that small percentage.

Feedback as Fuel, not Friction

Feedback comes in many forms, yet rarely do we tend to take the time to assess indirect feedback, in…

2 things that make people successful

For a long time, I thought that most successful people were successful only because they had a…

Insomnia genes found

An international team of researchers has found, for the first time, seven risk genes for insomnia. With this finding the researchers have taken an important step towards the unravelling of the biological mechanisms that cause insomnia. In addition, the finding proves that insomnia is not, as…

This 1 step makes you instantly more creative

Harness the power of three

Let’s say you’re resigning from your job and you want to write a nice personal email to your boss.

Your training initiative failed, using science I’ll explain why! (Warning: this may be upsetting for some)

You spent weeks/months researching different training companies and programs to find a fit for your needs. The organization or training program you…

Nice to meet another dedicated follower of Jordan Peterson! He is a great gift for us all! I have just published another post inspired by his lectures weaving my personal experience into letting people know about him. I have got many of my friends interested in the gold he is bringing to the table

Will People Think I Am a Narcissist if I Write About Myself ?

Growing the Courage to Write and Post

Making Those Little Voices in your Head Work For You

Five ways we trick ourselves into being negative!

1. Some perceive confusion as a bad thing.

Confusion is a good thing. At it’s most basic understanding is caused by having more than one choice. One choice is not really a choice, but being confused means there is…

Secrets and Lies: Personal Interrogation

What is a lie? A survival mechanism. An escape mechanism. A defense mechanism.

Marvelous Monday

Greed Will Benefit The Needy

Q: was scientist Fred A. Kummerow God’s whistle?

Negative Coffee Break

I constantly withdraw into negative memories.

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My hands and hair smell like gasoline

I clean my bathroom and think of how you’re dying.

We breathe the same air

Slowly: smiling

Gasping: between wor(l)ds

Q: why Nazareth? Nazareth wasn’t a Wall Street or a Washington D.C. A: isn’t Nazareth a bridge to 3 continents (Africa + Asia + Europe)?

Phenomenon behind something relative to impetus. Correlation between simplistic mnemonic devise such as words and/or letters, numbers, shapes, sounds, feel, taste to words, or respectively, algebraic expressions behind mnemonic devise relative to space, time, or motion. There are several ways to balance equations in the realm of algebra. All are…

A Necessary Flash

Inspiration is fleeting

Pausing to take it down is something that we all know we should do, but that is rarely the case. Maybe it’s meant to be that way. These ideas that come are never lost; they have just returned to the background.

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if JESUS is our BIG BROTHER then Mary Dyer and Sojourner Truth and Ida B Wells and Carry A Nation and nun Dorothy Stang and judge Patricia Acioli must be our Big Sisters