Why Your Empathy is Dying
Before I compiled concrete reasons why our Empathy levels drop, my instinct said, “Yeah, of course it’ll drop, empathy takes effort, and we don’t like …
Behavior generally refers to observable aspects of our life. Researchers have long considered behavior to be the central focus of psychology, whether its adjustment, mental health, or learning.
Behavior looks at 2 aspects of our lives:
1. What is a person doing?
2. How is it related to the environment or other behavior?
Behavior is typically understood through 2 approaches:
1. Reinforcement: What incentive or problem is increasing or decreasing a behavior.
2. Stimulus-response: If the brain is stimulated with any information or object, what is the human response to it?
Why even the smartest believe misinformation
Over 72% people are exposed to misinformation at least once a month on social media, according to this detailed list of statistics[1]. If you think …
Why split-screen ASMR Reels are so engaging
I watch these shorts on YT with some science being explained, and some Minecraft dude is jumping over these blocks hanging in the sky, and …
We are in The Speed Economy… Now What?
Will you be happy if your food delivery took just one minute? Not because it was cooked faster with pre-processed ingredients, but because future technology …
Retail Therapy Hijacked the Speed Economy
2 forces collided and imploded to become a self-sustaining consumer habit. ⚔️ The speed of everything is increasing, well at least in the consumer cosmos. …
Managing Social Anxiety for Networking Events
Social anxiety – a feeling of tension, self-doubt, and stress emerging from actually interacting with people and the idea of interacting with people. This can …
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, …
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 …
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 …
The Screenshot Test: Is your content Worthy of Sharing?
I figured this out too late, but glad I did. I created the screenshot test to use on all of my social media content, blog …
7 Anti-anxiety Habits to Save You from Procrastination
Procrastination – regretfully delaying tasks you need to complete – is a common problem in anxiety[1], depression[2], ADHD[3], and personality disorders[4], and it worsens with …
Are you an Autotelic Person? [Test yourself]
“The motivation to do a task comes from the satisfaction of getting to do the task.” If this is relatable, chances are you have the …
Bad Sleep might make you Procrastinate
Sleep deprivation and procrastination is a chicken and egg problem – what comes first? There is no meaningful starting point. But you can fix your …
Imitation: The Oldest way of Learning, still valid in Education
Monkey see, monkey do. We aren’t just monkeys, but a learning technique they used – learning by observation – still is one of the most …