We should ultimately trust that anyone who deliberately harms us must be a highly damaged and therefore unreliable witness. We should not continue to believe that they may be frustrated but clever, like an exasperated but fundamentally wise teacher motivated by a pursuit of the truth, however roughly handled.
On Being Able to Defend Oneself
Every day, especially in the era of social media (from the mental health perspective, probably the single worst invention of modern times), we are likely to face enemies. People who disagree with us, people who tell us we’re ‘bad’, Continue Reading
How To Finally Leave Your School
Technically, most of us leave school at 18 an event that tends to be vividly etched in memory and surrounded by considerable ceremony and emotion. And yet, rather oddly, despite appearances, many of us in fact don’t manage to Continue Reading
Fear of Happiness
Given how much we all long to be happy, we might presume that accepting the possibility of happiness in our lives would be an uncomplicated, serene and automatic process. But for many of us, however theoretically attached we might Continue Reading
Rawls Theory of Justice
Many of us feel that our societies are a little or even plain totally ‘unfair’. But we have a hard time explaining our sense of injustice to the powers that be in a way that sounds rational and without Continue Reading
The Itch to Write
In no other age can so many people have harboured such intense ambitions to become writers. The longing one day to turn out a book probably a novel or, less likely, an autobiography lies close to the center of Continue Reading
How Science Could Finally And Properly Replace Religion
According to a standard heroic secular account, at the start of the modern age and in just a few short decades, science was able to defeat religion through rigour and brilliance and thereby forever liberated humankind from ignorance and Continue Reading
The Porn Addiction
It could seem like a strange topic to be discussing. It doesn’t come up much in polite company. Yet we know that as many as 35 per cent of US and UK males under 50 will be struggling with Continue Reading
Arguments We have From Guilt Feeling
We’ve been wasting all day on the internet. One diversionary click turned into a thousand. It started with a news site and ended up in some very silly or very vile (or both) places. We’ve seen stuff we should Continue Reading
How Faulty Our Economic Indicators Actually Are
The Dow, which is the world’s most prestigious financial index, takes a daily temperature reading of the US, assigning it an astonishingly precise number. Behind this lies an almost unimaginable complexity of human behaviour: deals were made and broken Continue Reading
Challenge of Africa after Independence
The 6th of March 1957 was set to be one of the most joyous and memorable days in the history of modern Africa; this was the date on which Britain finally agreed to give Ghana, the richest and best Continue Reading
We’re All Destined to Be Lonely And That’s Fine
Loneliness renders us elegant and strangely alluring. It suggests there’s more about us to understand than the normal patterns of social intercourse can accommodate which is something to take pride in it.
Of Course Everyone is Messed Up!
Maybe you’ve crashed again and you’re in the dark familiar place. As ever, one mess-up reminds you of all the fiascos you’ve generated in the past and, more broadly, of your fundamental idiocy and beyond that the doubtful nature Continue Reading
How To Live A More Spontaneous Life
One explanation for the low-level sadness that often dogs our spirits is a lack of a seldom mentioned but essential ingredient in a good life: spontaneity. Without necessarily being entirely aware of the affliction, we may suffer from an Continue Reading
On Asking People What They ‘Do’?
The difference may seem minor but it has significant implications for the way we stand to be judged and therefore how pained the question may make us feel. We tend not to be responsible for where we are from. Continue Reading
How to Talk About Yourself and Be Charming
Polite people have it instilled in them from an early age that they should not talk too much about themselves. A few comments aside, they should to prove appealing always ask the other about their lives or stick to Continue Reading
How to Choose A Good Gift
One of the reasons it can be so hard to buy other adults presents is that we haven’t at some level quite factored in that we are now all grown-ups. Presents were probably a deeply special part of our Continue Reading
How Not to Be Boring
One of our great fears – which haunts us when we go into the world and socialise with others – is that we may, in our hearts, be really rather boring. But the good news, and a fundamental truth Continue Reading
How To Tell When You Are Being A Bore
Some of the reason why we end up being inadvertently rude to people is that they are so polite with us, a politeness which gives us precious little indication of the ways in which we may be gravely offending, Continue Reading
How to Finally Defeat the Anxiety
It is well understood by good parents that life should only ever get so exciting for a baby: after friends have come around and brought presents and made animated faces, after there has been some cake and some cuddles, Continue Reading
The Only True Source of Security
There are periods of our lives when we face enormous worries; they might be about our health, our status, our jobs, money… As we search for a measure of calm, the standard line (which we hear from a part Continue Reading
To Handle Yourself in a Crisis
Some of us belong to a social group politely known as ‘worriers.’ That is, we are close to panic on a range of issues pretty much all the time. We worry that the scratch on our knee will turn Continue Reading
Should I Stay or Leave A Relationship?
The decision whether one should stay or leave is one of the most consequential and painful any of us ever has to make. On any given day, many millions of people worldwide will be secretly turning the issue over Continue Reading
Why ‘Lazy’ People are Frowned Up ?
At times, perhaps without quite knowing why, we slip into a resolutely ‘lazy’ mood. We’re simply not able to write anything new or can’t face setting up more meetings. We don’t want to clean the fridge or go out Continue Reading
What to do when you Feel Anxious ?
One of the peculiar facets of our minds is that we may choose to feel anxious rather than to confront things that may be yet more painful or emotionally awkward in our lives. It can be easier to fret than to know ourselves properly.
Why People are So Shy And What is Solution to Shyness?\
Because shyness can grip us in such powerful ways, it’s tempting to think of it as an immutable part of our emotional make-up, with roots that extend far into our personality and perhaps biology – and that we would Continue Reading
How to Stop Risk Of Extra Marital Affairs
The traditional way to try to reduce the chances of someone having an affair is to focus on controlling their actions and outward movements: not letting them go to social events without us, calling them at random times or Continue Reading
What makes Someone ‘Genius’ ?
We hear a lot about genius. We are taught to admire the minds of those infinite, baffling but astonishing geniuses like Einstein, Tolstoy or Picasso. Quite what genius might actually be is left a little vague. It’s a codeword Continue Reading
How to Find a Satisfying Career
Warning – Incredibly long article ahead but Equally Incredibly Useful and Honest One – So please spare some focused time and have pen and paper Part I: The Project of Self-Realisation 1. We devote major portions of our time Continue Reading
Don’t Worry There is Always a Plan B
We grow up inevitably with a strong attachment to a plan A, that is, an idea of how our lives will go and what we need to do to achieve our particular set of well-defined goals. For example, we’ll Continue Reading
Why We Are, Soo Easily “Triggered”?
If we were totally sane, we would respond to the present only on its own terms; we would worry or be angered or give way to anxiety only as much as the circumstances before us actually dictated. But we Continue Reading
On the Profound Importance of Soothing, Kindness and Reassurance
It’s the middle of the night, let’s imagine, and we’ve been on the earth for about three months. A lot is still very unclear. We are profoundly helpless, barely able to move our own head and utterly at the Continue Reading
Am I Normal Person?
It really matters what we think of as ‘being normal’ because we are social creatures. We’re acutely receptive to social changes and profoundly sensitive to where we fit in – or the ways in which we don’t. No matter Continue Reading
Why True Love Doesn’t Have to Last Forever
One of the big assumptions of our times is that if love is real, it must by definition prove to be eternal. We invariably and naturally equate genuine relationships with life-long relationships. And therefore it seems almost impossible for us to interpret the Continue Reading
How to Teach Your Children Social and Emotional life lessons
Over the past decade, technologies have completely changed the way we connect with each other. The benefits of the internet are obvious and all around us. But the risks and dangers are more subterranean, and we need to start Continue Reading
How To Become More Efficient at Habits
Imagine someone who is deeply efficient. Their life is full of the best sorts of habits. They always take a break on Wednesday afternoon (unless there’s a crisis) and play a game of tennis or go swimming. They always Continue Reading
How to End A Friendship
In undertaking the quietly momentous task of telling someone that we don’t wish to be friends with them anymore, we face a practical and a theoretical hurdle. Strikingly, the practical issue is by far the easiest to address. The Continue Reading
How to Approach Strangers at A Party
A party at the house of a friend, eleven o’clock, on a still-warm evening. A metre away from you, a group of people are chatting animatedly. Someone is telling an anecdote, it might be something about a train ride Continue Reading
Top 15 Job Ready Future Proof Professional Courses you must Enroll Today!
Due to lockdown most of the colleges and school are shut off and economic activity is negligible affecting the entire world supply chain infrastructure. Due to Lockdown the Small Businesses have faced the brunt unimaginably with millions of MSME Continue Reading
Who Are The Real Winners and Losers in the Race of Life
Our societies have advanced tendencies to label certain people ‘winners’ and others logically enough ‘losers’. Aside from the evident meanness of this categorisation, the underlying problem with it is the suggestion that life might be a unitary, singular race, Continue Reading
What is the Point of Reading Lots of Books?
The modern world firmly equates the intelligent person with the well-read person. Reading books, a lot of books, is the hallmark of brilliance as well as the supreme gateway to prestige and understanding. It’s hard to imagine anyone arriving Continue Reading
What Should Motivate Us at Work Truly
In a perfect world, when it came to choosing an occupation, we would have only two priorities in mind: – to find a job that we enjoyed – to find a job that paid us enough to cover reasonable Continue Reading
5 Free Online Courses For Mental Health Managment You Should Enroll Today
During these unprecedented and challenging times, it’s important that we all take proactive measures to protect our well-being. This is a wonderful time to re-examine our lifestyle and invest our precious time, energy, and money in our mental and Continue Reading
How to Go to your Bed Early
There’s a pattern that goes like this: it’s late, given when we’ve got to wake in the morning, but instead of going to bed, we stay up. The next day, of course, we feel sluggish and weary and we Continue Reading
How to Simplify Your Lifestyle in Chaotic World
It is well understood by good parents that life should only ever get so exciting for a baby: after friends have come around and brought presents and made animated faces, after there has been some cake and some cuddles, Continue Reading
How to become Emotionally Intelligent
Far more than, we are inclined to accept and sometimes even realise, we are creatures of moods and emotions: that is, our sense of our value as humans is prone to incredible fluctuation. At times, we know how to Continue Reading
How to Learn Digital Skills for Free During Covid-19 Pandemic
One of major problem faced during pandemic and lockdown is threat to the jobs and livelihoods of millions of people. Companies have gone bankrupt and facing immense loss of capital and revenue, alone in US -30 million people have Continue Reading
How Nations Can Digitally Skill their Citizens
The challenge is clear. A large skills gap has emerged with tens of millions of jobs opening around the world for those with advanced digital skills and a shortage of qualified people to fill the positions. Chinese government data Continue Reading
Relationship Cure: A Morning and Evening Kiss
One of the constantly amazing aspects of relationships is just how much reassurance we need to believe that we are actively wanted and, equally, how easy it is to forget this awkward fact both about ourselves and the other Continue Reading
Can Technology Help Our Relationships?
It would be most of our first choices to have relationships in the real world; but for many of us, it is a great deal more plausible to pursue them with, and via, our phones. Phones provide exemplary compensation Continue Reading
What are the Roots of Loneliness?
The supposition quickly forms that a person’s loneliness must be explained by something abnormal and troubling within their character. If they are lonely, it is because there are things in their nature that merit for them to be left Continue Reading
Why Is There Unemployment?
It is common to hear that unemploy-ment has been caused by our expertise at mass producing things and standardizing processes; we have become so efficient at making goods and producing services, there is now less work for people to Continue Reading
What Women and Men May Learn from One Another When They are ‘Just Friends’
We tend to imagine that it must be within the context of a close and long-term sexual relationship that people are best placed to understand one another and reveal who they truly are without inhibition or fear. Bodily intimacy Continue Reading
What Would An Ideal Friend Be Like?
Some of the reason we aren’t, collectively, so good at friendship, is that we don’t have a clear idea of what a good friend might be like. It may therefore be worth trying to draw up a list of Continue Reading
Why Men Are So Bad at Friendship
Without denying that there can be trouble in all social relationships including those between women it’s significant that it is in particular men who struggle to find the friendships they need with other men. Two men are often circling Continue Reading
Why People Who Are Kind Always Lie
Truly good people are always ready and even, at times, highly enthusia-stic about telling lies. This sounds odd only because we are in the grip of a heroic but indis-criminate and delusional addiction to truth telling. A lot of Continue Reading
How to Be a Warm Person
While politeness is of course always preferable to rudeness, there are ways of being polite that badly miss the mark and can leave us feeling oddly detached and dissatisfied. Picture the person who ends up, despite their best efforts, Continue Reading
Why We Need to Build Home
One of the most meaningful activities we are ever engaged in is the creation of a home. Over a number of years, typically with a lot of thought and considerable dedication, we asse-mble furniture, crockery, pictures, rugs, cushions, vases, Continue Reading
How to Deal With Imposter Syndrome?
In many challenges personal and professional we are held back by the crippling thought that people like us could not possibly triumph given what we know of ourselves: how reliably stupid, anxious, gauche, crude, vulgar and dull we really Continue Reading
What is the Future Of Health and Healthcare After Covid-19 Pandemic
The global population will balloon from 7.6 billion to 9.7 billion by 2050, according to the United Nations while the number of people over the age of 60 will increase to 2 billion by that point. The world is Continue Reading
Why we need more hugs
It seems strange to make a case for hugging. After all, hugging has become deeply fashionable; it’s viewed as an expansive alternative to the handshake, and is intended to suggest a flatteringly warm-blooded informality. Like the peck on both Continue Reading
The Fear of a ‘No’
There are many things we want to ask of other people. We want to ask for a job, for money, a chance to collaborate, a kiss. But we often don’t ask because of The Fear of a ‘No’. Why Continue Reading
How Could a Work Be Meaningful?
For most of history, work was not a topic of sustained reflection because it seemed at once so simple, so inevitable and so unpleasant. It was overwhelmingly focused on the provision of basic food and shelter and offered next Continue Reading
The Advantages of Long-Distance Love
When we hear that a couple live 11 time zones apart and can afford to come together only once in a long while, it’s natural to offer sympathy for the pain. We should more fairly envy them for their Continue Reading
If Conversations were Dinner then What would be Menu?
We typically spend a lot of time getting the table and food right when we invite others over for a meal; but now that no direct hosting will be possible for a while, we have one small but central Continue Reading
The Pain of Working Parents
Historically, it is very odd for business people or indeed anyone with an executive role to spend much of their day attending to the needs of their own children. People weren’t heartless, they just didn’t think that it was Continue Reading
How To Teach Children About Managing Relationships
A central part of any parent’s responsibility is to prepare children for the challenges of adulthood: getting a job, managing finances, writing timely thank you letters, brushing hair, hanging up wet coats… What is less frequently mentioned is that Continue Reading
How to Raise Self Confident Children
A near-universal goal of parents is to try to imbue their children with confidence; to try to lend them the energy, self-belief and courage to eventually be able to act decisively in the world. With sufficient confidence, they will Continue Reading
What is Means to Be Infidel
Infidelity is commonly interpreted as close to the greatest tragedy that could befall any relationship and as the natural, inevitable prelude to the break-up of a union. It is viewed in such dark terms because, under the philosophy of Continue Reading
When Does An Marital Affair Begin?
Once an affair has been uncovered, we often ask in the position of the betrayed, pained party “when it began“. Pinpointing the precise moment promises to shed light on its motivations and on possible ways to prevent any further Continue Reading
What Happens When An Marital Affair is Uncovered?
What typically happens is fury on one side, and a desperate show of contrition on the other. The person who has had the affair admits that they have done something evidently terrible for reasons that they are in no Continue Reading
Strategy to Recover from Global Economic Recession
The global economy is in the midst of a severe crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The immediate impact on FDI will be dramatic. Longer term, a push for supply chain resilience and more autonomy in productive capacity could Continue Reading
Why We All Should Study Our Childhoods
There is perhaps no greater priority in childhood than to acquire an education: it’s in the early years that we have to push ourselves with special vigour to learn the lessons, and acquire the experience, that will help us Continue Reading
How to Solve the Problem of Loneliness
There are plenty of people who look like good friends – but are not; and therefore many of us who don’t feel we should be lonely – but deep down very much are. When it comes to friendship, it Continue Reading
Reasons Why No one is happy forever
What most of us long for above all else is ‘security’, the sense that we are – at last – safe on the earth. We pin our hopes for security on a shifting array of targets: a happy relationship, Continue Reading
Why people comment so bad online?
Comment sections online should be the beautiful public squares of our democracies: places we navigate to for frank and thoughtful exchanges of ideas; places where we learn to understand each other’s point of view and where serious discussions evolve Continue Reading
How to Survive a Marriage
Our society typically devotes huge attention to the start of a marriage and particularly to the actual wedding ceremony. We’re correct that a great deal of thought is needed somewhere. But it’s the continuation of marriage that is of course Continue Reading
Are We Really Productive?
In the last two hundred, the world has witnessed the greatest increase in productivity in the history of humanity. From 1 A.D to 1820, living standards in the West slowly doubled, rising from a GDP per person of $600 Continue Reading
What is difference between Depression and Sadness
Almost half of us will suffer from depression at some point in our lives, but the condition remains badly misunderstood and therefore often poorly treated. At the heart of our collective difficulty with depression is a confusion about what Continue Reading
Why to Give Up on Human Beings
It’s peculiar to think that there might be a word like ‘misanthropy’ in our language: ‘a dislike of humankind.’ For a phenomenon to become a word, it needs a sufficient number of people to identify with it; it has Continue Reading
What is the Business Model of Whatsapp
Whatsapp is currently the most popular and widely used app in the world with over 2 billion users and more than 65 billion messages are sent via WhatsApp every day, and most importantly it’s a free app. In 2014, Facebook bought Continue Reading
What is AI and why we need it to for SDG Goals?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the transformative technology of our time. Concurrent advances in computational power, algorithms and digitization have led to a rapid increase of applications that some call the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As with previous technological revolution, its Continue Reading
What Makes a Person Very Attractive?
Understandably enough, our societies pay vast attention to the idea of ‘sexiness’; far more questionably, they tempt us to believe that it might be easy to understand what this quality consists of. The leading suggestion takes its starting point Continue Reading
How to more Curious
One of the things it’s easiest to forget about children is that they are aliens recently descended from another planet. In the way they look at everything around them, in the wide open stares they give to ways of Continue Reading