Blog #80 - Leading questions...
Conversations and discussions are essential tools for learning, growth, and building relationships. But not all conversations are created...
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Marcus
- Feb 3, 2023
- 1 min
Blog #79 - I'm back.
Just so you know - I've been gone for a year but now I am back. It's been a while since I wrote my last blog - exactly one year - but...
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Marcus
- Feb 9, 2022
- 6 min
Weekly Blog #78 - Giving way too many f*cks...
"Your problem?" - that's the question I was faced with a couple of days ago when I made a somewhat contemptuous gesture towards a small...
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Marcus
- Jan 17, 2022
- 6 min
Weekly Blog #76 - Kindness and compassion...
As mentioned in my previous blog I planned on spending more time studying different topics in the field of positive psychology. Some of...
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Marcus
- Jan 10, 2022
- 6 min
Weekly Blog #75 - Happiness...
There are certain fields in psychology that interest me more than others. Up to this point I was fascinated by psychopathology,...
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Marcus
- Jan 3, 2022
- 5 min
Weekly Blog #74 - A new year... breath and sleep
I feel like I've just written a blog about New Year and quarantine... but it's been 365 days already. There might be some truth to what...
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Marcus
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Weekly Blog #73 - Home... and peace of mind
Last Saturday my wife and I arrived in her hometown of Naantali. We have been looking forward to a longer vacation for some time now...
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Marcus
- Nov 30, 2021
- 4 min
Weekly Blog #72 - Existential dreads... or 'how to unlearn fear'
I am not an expert on anxieties or depression. I believe that I have anxieties as everyone else does. Sometimes I'm aware of them, most...
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Marcus
- Nov 22, 2021
- 4 min
Weekly Blog #71 - Why thinking 'efficiency' with people doesn't work...
This week's blog is about one of the toughest lessons I had to learn as a consultant: thinking 'efficiency' with people doesn't work. Let...
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Marcus
- Nov 13, 2021
- 5 min
Weekly Blog #70 - "You're Good. Get better. Stop asking for things!"
Don Draper - Mad Men... I am not a native English speaker. This could be a reason why the term "delaying gratification" seems rather...
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Marcus
- Nov 11, 2021
- 5 min
Weekly Blog #69 - "Is the world better because your company is in it?"
This is a rather thought provoking question. I borrowed it from an article published recently in the Harvard Business Review (Issue...
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Marcus
- Oct 12, 2021
- 4 min
Weekly Blog #68 - Stop feeling bad about what you don't have...
Yeah, I know, we've all been told a million times that we should be thankful for what we have. And what's the consquence of that? We show...
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Marcus
- Oct 5, 2021
- 3 min
Weekly Blog #67 - A brief outline of thought...
What is thought - or thinking? Well, first of all it can be described as a mental process by which certain beings form psychological...
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Marcus
- Sep 10, 2021
- 4 min
Weekly Post #65 - Character vs. Personality Ethics...
In my humble opinion, ethics are a vital part of every social interaction. And even though there are quite a few ethical standards that...
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Marcus
- Sep 2, 2021
- 4 min
Weekly Blog #64 - Emotional stability...
Recently, I've found myself thinking about the state of my emotional stability more and more often. I have been socialised in an...
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Marcus
- Aug 9, 2021
- 5 min
Weekly Blog #63 - When feeling safe is not enough...*
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about psychological safety as an important factor in the modern workplace to voice your ideas and engage in...
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Marcus
- Jul 21, 2021
- 5 min
Weekly Blog #62 - Feeling free...
"2 weeks of quarantine - that's not a big deal." Well, if you have the right mindset it probably isn't. But there's two ways to think...
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Marcus
- Jul 4, 2021
- 5 min
Weekly Blog #61 - On choice and attention...
I'm in quarantine again. Two weeks in a hotel on the north Bund back home in Shanghai. It feels like a 3-star-hotel-prison to be honest....
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Marcus
- Jun 14, 2021
- 3 min
Weekly Blog #60 - The small things in life...
How often does one really think about personal preferences in regards to the circumstances one wants to live in? I'm talking about basic...
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Marcus
- Apr 28, 2021
- 4 min
Weekly Blog #57 - Deductive vs. inductive reasoning...
First of all I want to apologize for not posting as regularly as I used to. Most of all I think that I have to apologize to myself since...
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