Why and How to Wear a Face Mask
There is a difference between motivation and coercion, even when using scientific arguments. If one wants people – including oneself – to wear and continue wearing face masks, one needs to motivate them. This is: to provide them with the means by which they can motivate themselves. There is no other way. Besides, it’s an Read the full article…
Are you Interested in Making the Future Together?
Let’s not get defeated by the virus. International top specialists say a second COVID wave is inevitable in the autumn. It seems they are wrong in that it will come sooner. In any case, autumn will be worse and winter even worse than that. We just came out of a mental-physical whirlpool. Virologists are specialists in virology, Read the full article…
People ‘Believe’ in You: as a Weatherman or Santaclaus?
A weatherman plays with statistics. Santaclaus works with toys and children’s souls. When people notice that you act differently than you say, they don’t ‘believe’ you anymore. I use quotes because ‘believe’ is a term with two meanings that are very different from each other, which may often lead to misunderstandings. The first meaning of Read the full article…
Lonely at the Top?
One is not lonely by being alone, but by losing oneself. You may have already heard the expression in the title, or even experienced it yourself. Of course, one does not have to be at the top to be lonely. Loneliness occurs in all walks of life. One can therefore also reverse the expression. The Read the full article…
Vision Makes Future and Past Live in the Present
A good vision is not a dead compromise but a living synthesis of past, present, and future. A leader keeps a vision alive in the mind of his ‘disciples’ (such as a company credo). He motivates them to follow him in this vision. This is discipline. You notice the similarity in word use. Of course, Read the full article…
From Fear of Failure to Failure as Part of Success
In our hypercomplex society, failure is a certainty… that we may use for the better. Everyone fails. Even someone successful, sometimes fails, except it will be even more noticeable. The fact remains that the bigger you are, the higher you fall. And you may hit the ground with an almighty wallop. One is more surprised Read the full article…
Unborn Life
We’re talking about human lives. Let’s not put the pro and con against each other now. Let’s just posit some situations and think and feel about them. This is about how you can feel about it. It’s not about what’s in a book. It’s not about what anyone tells you, including me. It’s only about Read the full article…
16. Postcoronalia – COVID complications
July 4, 2020 Daily Total Cases worldwide 209.028 11.182.576 Deaths worldwide 5.170 528.372 Today is the 4th of July On a rally at Mount Rushmore, with perplexity on four stony presidential faces in the background, the US president couldn’t care less for the people who seem to adore him and take pride in Read the full article…
Depression Relief – Read&Do
This is the foreword to my book ‘Depression Relief’ that you can find on Amazon (see menu). Pandemic of depression An increasing number of people are being diagnosed with depression worldwide. There is more to this than just some wrought statistics. There is much suffering at the deepest level, which is what depression basically stands Read the full article…
15. Mind the Denial
More and more, I wonder why it is so very, very hard for many to see the mind in what is happening with corona worldwide. June 30, 2020 Why? In view of the possible collapse of the world economy and devastation of the health of millions, we should cherish every straw of possible relief. Conceptually, Read the full article…
14. Motivation Without Anxiety in Corona Times
Motivation may be the single most crucial factor in the whole COVID story. Yet it doesn’t get the attention it deserves. June 27, 2020 Cases worldwide Daily: 176.568 – Total: 10.075.115 Deaths worldwide Daily: 4.891 – Total: 500.624 [There are a few links in this text towards other blog posts by me. You Read the full article…
13. Winter of COVID
Second Wave Corona? One big or several smaller ones? While we don’t know what is to happen, we can search for arguments. June 25, 2020 Quoting Andrea Ammon Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 21 May 2020: “It’s not a question of if there will be a renewed surge but “when Read the full article…
12. Where o Where Is the Virus in Europe?
Summer is dawning. The sun knows it all over Europe, as do the people who seem to live in a full post-corona era. So do many individuals in the US. What can we expect? June 23, 2020 Cases worldwide [from Worldometers] Daily: 138.975 – Total: 9.189.875 Deaths worldwide Daily: 3.880 – Total: 473.484 Did the Read the full article…
Whirlpool of Disease
A whirlpool is a state in which much energy comes together, leading to a non-natural flow. A new order is created at the expense of the surroundings. This is probably central to most ‘disease.’ Life is a search for equilibrium. In the midst of a universe that searches for entropy (disorder), life is but a Read the full article…
11. Summer of Covid
June 13, 2020 It’s almost summer in Europe. COVID-19 seems to be a recent nightmare. Glad it’s over. But it isn’t, of course. There are several ways in which it isn’t over: A second wave will probably hit Europe and the US in the autumn. It may be even much worse, given the Read the full article…
Strongmen Manipulate
A strongman is strong because others are weaker. A leader is strong because others are strong. An Open Leader has Inner Strength. The opposite of an Open Leader. A manipulator is never a leader. A leader does not need to manipulate. Instead, he leads. A ‘strongman’ – what’s in a name – usually sees himself Read the full article…
Is Social Nocebo Real?
Can culturally engrained convictions have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of many individuals? About placebo A person can have a placebo effect all by himself by being convinced that something is helpful, but by itself, it is not helpful at all. This way, for instance, a sugar pill can be a ‘painkiller.’ Read the full article…