Summer’s in town. With temperatures rising, people flock to the beach amass. Including thieves looking for their next loot. The beach visitors can be divided in two groups. There is the group that gets robbed and the group that doesn’t….
Category: Mindfitnezz
How to use the insights from behavioral science to improve your health and wellbeing
Judgements of people or things are made fast. So fast that they can be very inaccurate. We know we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but we still do. Why is that? In this blog I will explore the…
Now that I am watching the new season of my favorite series The Blacklist, I notice I am speeding up near the end of this season. Every night I watch more episodes and stay up later than the night before….
When you receive feedback on your work, the way you look or a sports performance, it usually contains some positive and some negative elements. But why do you focus so much on the negative while the positive barely registers? In this…
I have recently started watching the Netflix series Disenchantment. And I have also finished watching it recently. I find it so funny, that I quickly watched all three seasons. I noticed, however, that on occasions that my wife was also…
At the entrance of my supermarket is a homeless person selling De Daklozenkrant. Whenever I buy one of these newspapers I also come home with more potato chips and chocolate bars. If you have similar experiences, you are not the…
Honesty is considered a positive trait all over the world. And of course we all want to feel good. But how honest do you actually have to be to still feel good about yourself? This blog explores the relationship between…
Every year millions of people around the world start the calendar with a ‘Dry January’. It is the name given to the one-month alcohol-free challenge. Although the one-month period is not that long, the change in behavior is pretty significant…
A new year, a new you. You may have set some good intentions for the New Year. You may have experienced that following up on your intentions requires willpower and self-control. I know exactly what you mean. In this blog…
The fact that you are alive today is a miracle in and of itself. What were the chances of you being born into this world? Very close to zero. But miracles don’t stop at birth. They happen throughout life. And…