14 Career Skills School Students must have before 16
What do students need now in their learning that goes beyond gaining factual knowledge to have a professional advantage later in life? Note: I’ve excluded …
Repetition Tricks us into Liking & Believing Anything
What’s common between gaslighting, liking a product, remembering song lyrics, and falling for pseudoscience? A core mechanism of how we perceive the world and form …
Psychological Impact of 7 Modern Behaviors
Explore the basic psychological impact of clothes, exercise, gum, coffee, music, memes, and role-playing on mood, emotions, behavior, and productivity.
Art & Science of Improvisation: Work, Music, Cooking, Everything
Make a square without using squares, lines, or rectangles. This is the essence of improvisation. I looked at the rule – make a square without …
Your Productivity Lies in Your Clothes
The clothes we wear at work, during work from home, or in meetings directly affect our productivity. Clothes influence our behavior, confidence, motivation, and thought …
Psychology Humor: Daily experiences in Psych Jargon
This is a humorous take on using psychological jargon instead of common everyday language to describe psychological experiences.
Mind-body Connection: 10 Facts that prove it is deep
These are 10 facts about the brain and body that prove the mind-body connection is very deep. This is a summary of the mechanisms that enable the connection.
How exercise makes your brain better: 7 mechanisms
You know exercise is good for the brain. But… Do you know what exactly is happening to your brain because of exercise? Let’s start with …
Ultimate Critical Thinking Test & foundations of critical thinking
Yes, critical thinking is hard to define and a constant victim of debate. Educators and experts have attempted to define it in separate contexts. I’ll …
How exercise makes the brain better: 7 mechanisms
Explore the benefits of exercise on the brain. These are the mechanisms through which exercise improves brain function.
8 Unexpected Ways You Already Protect Mental Health
Everyday actions can protect mental health. These are some very common behaviors that reduce stress and improve adjusting to life, even if they feel basic.
10 surprising behaviors that minimize loneliness
People cope with loneliness by adopting certain behaviors. I’ve described the behaviors and how they minimize loneliness.
Top future-proof job skills Psychology Students need
Having a psychology background typically prepares you for some theory, research methods, statistics, counseling, and community welfare. At least most bachelor’s degrees in psychology offer …
Mind-Heart connection: How deep is it?
Explore the relationship between the heart and mind. I explain how the 2 communicate and inform decisions.
Your Brain’s MVP: Brain reserve and Cognitive reserve
Brain reserve and cognitive reserve are assets in the brain that help us battle age-related cognitive decline and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. And they …
Mind-body Connection: 8 Daily Habits to build it
I’ve curated 8 daily habits that build the mind-body connection in many ways – conceptually and physically for self-awareness.