“What the heck is your topic about?”, asked friend of mine, upon learning about it. “Social contagion? Where did you find this weird expression, anyway?”. “Searching for the answer how to live a good and meaningful life”, was my answer. “You believe that you can make an interesting article about social contagion?” “Yes, I do,
ACCEPTANCE Sometimes, when we are down, we worry too much, and we don’t know what to do. We don’t know how to cope with problems. Sometimes we have no chance to change anything. We feel that everything in our life is out of our control, out of our own power. We don’t know how to
You don’t know the answer? I don’t know either, but the placebo definitely seems to work. The Placebo Effect is a phenomenon that is many decades old. Sadly, it has also been frequently abused by many people, from charlatans to health care professionals. I like to look at this from an alternative medicine perspective: as
Who Wants To Be A Perfectionist? I have a friend of mine who wants to be a perfectionist. Everything in his life must be done literally perfectly, no mistakes or imperfections, no failings or deviations, no slip ups, no inconsistencies. Constantly on alert, he is striving to be the best. Perfectionism is his way of
“The Eagle who thought he was a chicken” “A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. “Years
Have you ever heard a question like the above title? I was `lucky’ to learn about acculturation in the hardest way, not knowing how to answer to the question. Let me explain my dilemma, and why I was so confused. I had just moved to a foreign country and the person asked me, in my
