Sciency Guide to Expert-level Memory Skills
At the simplest level, memory can be viewed as a 3-step process – encoding, storage, and retrieval. But you’ll see the story gets a lot …
Core Financial Concepts in Psychology
Psychology and economics are closely related. Here are 7 dominant concepts in psychology that affect financial behavior.
Your brain on Productivity: Thinking & Doing modes
When we think of productivity, we often think about productivity habits, focus, and getting work done efficiently. There is enough good and bad advice on …
Digital Civics: Threats, Hygiene, Netiquette (Part 2)
We’ll do a visual recap of the first part first. Since we are talking about good behavior, naturally there is bad behavior. These are the …
Digital Civics: Concepts & Human Interaction (Part 1)
We seek people out on a URL instead of IRL pretty much all the time. So we need to know what is considered good behavior, …
Why Music is so Important, psychologically
Here’s a quick overview of why music is so important psychologically. These are summarized from a large body of research that looks at the role music plays and how music alters the brain.
DIY Upskilling: 10 psychological insights
Here are 10 learning principles from psychology and cognitive science that will affect your upskilling & DIY learning journey. Most employees will need to re-skill at some point. This will speed it up
Is AI making us smarter Or dumber?… Or artificially smarter? (AI symbiotic crisis)
I’ve been thinking about memes. 2 years ago, I called meme templates, meme phrases, and reel content outsourced cognition – borrowing others’ structured thoughts. Using …
Seeing a face? It’s Pareidolia
Here’s an explanation for a fascinating phenomenon known as pareidolia – seeing faces where there are none. I’ve explained how and why it happens.
Primes are Guiding your Life in ways you can’t Predict
What if smelling a flower makes you spend a few months’ worth of income on a vacation? That could just be happening right now. Welcome …
Toxic Relationship with Money? Explore scripts, personality, and biases
Highlights We have a relationship with money based on “money scripts”. Money Scripts are our beliefs about money. Scripts are akin to personal rules of …
10 Lesser-known Psychology Facts you didn’t know
Here’s a collection of 10 lesser-known psychology facts about our senses, relationships, thinking patterns, sleep, music, and emotions.
5 Deep Personality Traits, beyond introverts/extroverts
Learning your personality type is probably the most basic way to conceptualize yourself. And, considering we are meaning & pattern-seeking creatures, understanding personality becomes a …
8 Types of Memory Systems the Brain has by default
Here’s a short description of 8 types of memory systems in the brain. They are: Working memory, short-term memory, long-term memory, sensory memory, and transactive memory.
Psychology myths infest the Business World, these are the risks
Some psychology myths have gained immortal fact status in the business world. The reason for this is that misinformation appears believable, the myths are often …
Emotion Activation at Work: 2 Frameworks for anti-autopilot work
I’ll introduce 2 frameworks to assess how people respond to their work demands. The first one is by the notable Positive Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and …