With the knowledge of the previous posts put together, I would like to cover why we tend to anticipate actions. Why does going backward help us move forward, why does going down help us go up, and how does this counterintuitive idea of going in the opposite direction make us move more efficiently?
Read MoreIn the previous posts, we've covered the joint's range of motion and how muscles pull on them to create movement. Today, we'll dive a little bit deeper and see how both the shape of bones and muscle attachment to them interact to create a lever-like system.
Read MoreIn this little series of posts, I want to simplify and make the topic of anatomy accessible. My focus will be mostly on understanding the biomechanics of movement. In this post we'll focus on muscles and how they function.
Read MoreIn this little series of posts, I want to simplify and make the topic of anatomy accessible. My focus will be mostly on understanding the biomechanics of movement. We'll focus on the joints and muscles that make us move.
Read MoreIn this post, I wanted to use the scene in “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” to talk about the psychology and physiology of panic attacks and explore the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Be wary that this post will contain some spoilers.
Read MoreIn this post, we'll dive into the spectrum between mental visualization and aphantasia, from the ability to create complex images in your mind to being completely blind. And we'll see how workflow often changes based on those mental skills.
Read MoreIn this post, we’ll analyze one piece of the puzzle of personality, why we are who we are and why we make the choices we make. The beliefs and value system of a character are often determined by events that happen to them in the past and the coping mechanism they develop to deal with those situations.
Read MoreIn this post we'll take a look at where different types of breathing happen in the body and the area and muscles if requires. Then, we'll analyze different type of more or less common breathing patterns, taking into consideration their speed and where breathing happens.
Read MoreFor the most part, at the center of our feelings of not being good enough is our own definition of competence and what a competent person looks like. The discrepancy between the two images is what gives birth to the impostor syndrome.
Read MoreActive listening is one of the interpersonal skills that are often the object of focus in counseling or coaching to truly connect with another person. In the majority of our cases, it could mean dealing with a client, a supervisor, someone we are supervising, a colleague.
Read MoreSubjecting our work to other people's judgment is often one of the scariest things we can do. And yet we need it to grow, to learn, to improve our craft. What we don’t need, is to suffer because of it.
Read MoreHumans are not very efficient when it comes to multitasking. All things being equal, we are far more effective in executing the same exact tasks in a sequential form rather than in parallel. Trying to do multiple things at once is often the best way to make sure we will sabotage our results and our productivity.
Read MoreCaffeine doesn’t provide you with extra energy, it simply resorts to masking the stimulus of tiredness.
Read MoreDuring unengaging, boring moments, our minds disconnect from the outside world and turn inward, we start ruminating and daydreaming.
Read MoreFood is a way more complicated topic than just talking about nutrients, we aren’t machines and food isn’t just fuel. Humans are complex biological, psychological, social creatures. We don’t eat nutrients, we eat food that we like, we eat with people, in places, we eat to celebrate, we eat when we are stressed, we eat when we are sad.
Read MoreThese three basic psychological needs, if met, contribute to the general well-being and growth of the individuals. This is whether our environment is the workplace, a sports team or personal relationships.
Read MoreEven after all our preparation work, we need a little help from fate. Some random little accident that will help us break our frame of mind and hints us in the right direction.
Read MoreA mindset is a self-belief deeply integrated into our psychology which creates the lens that defines for us the outer world and how we interact with it.
Read MoreWhen we are under-recovered we pay the price not only in our health but also in our performance. We simply can’t give our best consistently if we are not in our best shape.
Read MoreThe concept of the triune brain originated from neuroscientist Paul D. MacLean around the 1960s as a way to explain the different stages through which the brain evolved.
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