The year right before the Covid outbreak I took a 10-day vacation travelling to Japan with my family. It was the first time I planned by myself an independent foreign trip for fun, not for business and so it took me enormous amount of time mapping up a detailed itinerary and making all the bookings ...

Growing weak ties could bring us more luck, but if we believe that is the whole story, it’s probably missing the point. Weak ties act more like a facilitator than a deciding cause of success. Prerequisites for weak ties to work for us are knowing very specifically what we want and practicing the 100...

Time and again, I learn the hard way not to count on intuition when it comes to making major career decisions. Thanks to many impulsive or intuitive decisions, my career got off to a rocky start. It was as if I shot myself in the foot many times in a row. Luckily, even having wasted so much time and...

The argument made by Elon Mask that there is only one in billions of odds that we live in a base reality seems logical and convincing, but I find it hard to embrace. Today, we are apparently in control of the time and efforts we wanna allocate among virtual realities and what we perceived as authent...

I learned the terms AFAB and AMAB in the article. Cool!! We may see something like "The AFAB Arab married an AMAB rabbi." in the future. :lol: This is also the first time I came across the two terms, AFAB and AMAB. Hopefully, they will remain being medical or biological jargon. If in the future whe...

Abyss can mean setbacks and struggles that we are suffering in life. If we give the lion’s share of our focus to them and wallow in self-pity, it is likely that we become full of negativity and constantly radiate negative thoughts and energy. That will eventually drive away people who could possibly...

I am lucky enough to be only a situational procrastinator, not a chronic one. Tasks that I tend to procrastinate are either things that are not so enjoyable but need to get done, like house chores, or complicated work that require much time and efforts. Filing tax returns by end of this June happens...

Hi my friends, Please read the following article before coming to the meeting. Thanks. How using Notion.so improved my productivity Questions for Discussion Session One: 1. Please share with your team a tool that you are using – be it a physical one or a software – and that helps you organize your l...

Another thing that confuses me is the different terms being used when the host and the guest of the podcast were talking about the topic of happiness – happiness, enjoyment, pleasure, joy, and having fun. What are their definition each? I'm not sure, but here is my best shot. - Having fun is doing t...

It is difficult to answer the 3rd question because the idea that enjoyment is pleasure plus elevation was only mentioned once in this episode, without much explanation. We probably need to listen to previous episodes to understand what elevation means here.

At first, I didn’t quite understand the meaning of ritual in the Little Prince, so I googled and figured out that it’s not very different from the concept of the habit loop. That finding however baffles me. A habit loop contains three elements: cue, routine, and reward. It is true that a well-establ...

Through a lot of recommendations, My Mister, a Korean TV drama, is one of the best works that has overwhelmingly impressed me. "My Mister" is also one of my favorite. It really touch me in some moment. After watching all episodes, I really feel empty for a while. I have recommended it to Kooper and...

I read this in the article: "In fact, Raymond explains that people with uninspiring real-life connections might require a regular dose of fantasy to keep their head up." I guess I'm in big trouble. :cccry: You are not alone Rock. Uninspiring trivia is often part and parcel of our everyday life. Tha...

My dear Yoyo friends, It's time for me to do my part as a host. Please read the article from the following link before coming to discuss. Thanks. PSYCHOLOGISTS ON HOW TO FILL THE EMPTINESS YOU FEEL AFTER BINGEING A GREAT SHOW If you have problems accessing the website (it could be blocked by Cisco U...

How can we apply the nudge technique at an individual level? The key is to design personal choice architectures that work best to us. For instance, to eat healthier, we could buy and use smaller plates and bowls, which painlessly cut the default size of serving for every meal. We can also arrange fo...