There Are No Shortcuts to Real Change

From 1998 – 2000, the internet promised to change the world. Then in Mar 2000, it all crashed — we thought, the internet was all hype. Turns out, both points of view were wrong. The Internet did change the world, but not the way we had imagined. Just...

Simple Steps to Shift Your State of Mind

Do psychiatrists also get depressed or anxious? The answer, unsurprisingly, is yes. Just because you know how your brain works doesn’t change its working one bit. So when a psychiatrist hears some bad news, his body activates the fight or flight system just like...

Everybody Needs Downtime

Back in the days when I headed a police organization, we had 1,200 armed policemen in our reserves for handling contingencies. These policemen were supposed to frequently undergo a 2-week intensive training in batches of 100. But for decades, this had not been done....

Keep Life Simple

A TikToker Canadian mom got hospitalized after drinking too much water as part of a ’75-Hard’ challenge. Another influencer died of starvation after eating only uncooked vegan meals for 10 years — you might have seen that news. What is going on...