New Year’s resolution are bound to fail. So how to start this fresh New Year in the best way possible. Not by setting New Year’s resolutions but by learning from the past year. Sounds complicated? Definitely not. Three simple questions will make your year start of with the right energy. …
They have accepted your article. YES! You feel great and you are on top of the world. Or you receive the message that your paper is not accepted. S***. You feel absolutely rubbish. And the feelings don’t fleet away. Even if someone compliments you on your great research, you still…
Our thoughts become distracted the most when we are stressed or annoyed. You work 50% longer if you continually switch tasks, in comparison to staying on one task from start to finish. On average, we switch applications on our computer 566 times on a typical workday, and check our email…
Do you have the feeling that whatever you do, it is never enough? That you actually should have had more published? That you should be further along with your research? That maybe, you just feel like you aren’t good enough? These are feelings and thoughts countless PhD students have. Achieving…
Quite a while ago I gave a course to prospective mediators. One of the most important concepts I covered was the difference between a circumstance and the meaning we give it. Why is that difference so important? Because it is the source of so many conflicts! The more clear we…
Riding a rollercoaster or going bungee jumping to get rid of kidney stones. In the zoo chimpanzees can imitate humans better and more often than vice versa. Saliva works well as a cleaning solution. Living as a cannibal, you would not consume enough calories. The more road rage you have…
