Exposing Yourself to Positive Psychological Stress
…life is a bit dull because you no longer sit high-pressure exams or compete in sports. In those situations, you competed on a level playing field. On your job, there…
…life is a bit dull because you no longer sit high-pressure exams or compete in sports. In those situations, you competed on a level playing field. On your job, there…
When I was younger, I occasionally came across older guys who somehow felt compelled to impart their wisdom on me. This is bad enough when it happens in the real…
…three pairs of socks and underpants, two T-/dress/polo shirts, and an extra pair of trousers. Your backpack better have a separate pocket on the outside for storing a bottle of…
…egregious if most of them are actually not required other than achieving 100% completion. Regarding 100% completion,I cared a lot about this when I was a kid,but stopped pursuing this…
…the” Great Purge” (Tschistka) under Stalin in the Soviet Union in 1937/38. The leadership sets quotas and the commandos on the ground surpass those quotas and even demand new quota…
…enough babies, we need immigrants to replenish our workforce. Let’s ignore that those “doctors and engineers” from the Third World are not competitive on the labor market because they lack…
I recently read a book on the collapse of Nazi Germany. The content is not particularly relevant for this blog, but one comment by the author of that book is….
…post.) What I want to take aim at is the one fundamental weakness of the former. It is a fundamentally flawed understanding of the scientific method and truth-finding. You are…
…the strict laws as you know what you’re getting into. Caning for overstaying your visa — I think the threshold is 90 days, which just doesn’t happen by accident —…
Maou Continuing our conversation regarding screening women for a relationship,I just found an oldie goldie by you in the wayback machine. Hope you don’t mind me sharing it here. https://web.archive.org/web/20120415111623/http://www.cliffslist.com/content/spotting-greedy-women-aaron-sleazy…
…years. This is how around 85% of Singaporeans live Another very common remark is that Singapore is a very authoritarian country. Amusingly, when my girlfriend and I attended a banquet…
Censorship can be carried out in a heavy-handed manner, which is all-too-obvious and yields you a bad reputation on the world stage. A much more subtle approach is underhanded censorship….
…walk the talk. Even a couple of years ago there were videos floating around in which Jordan Peterson openly spoke about taking anti-depressants, and that he will take them for…
…up in the morning, commute to work, work, and commute back home sucks for most men. Easily twelve to thirteen hours a day you spend on work, if you include…
…on establishing a medical tyranny. Bukele wrote the following in response on 2 December: https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1466527805152370692 As Twitter has a tendency to delete everything they do not like, I will need…