A friend asked me to include parental alienation in my recent blog The people we love the most can hurt us the most. This sensitive topic needs a separate blog. If only for this 2022 Guardian article, entitled: UN to investigate use of ‘parental alienation’ tactic in custody cases. "Parental alienation is a pathological phenomenon in which a child is convinced...
Focus vs perspective
The people we love the most can hurt us the most
27 Mar, 2023
A friend says that she envies me for protecting my heart so well. Indeed, it seems that I'm not hurt by the one(s) whom I love the most. Late 2010, I decided to stop my heart from bleeding by building an imaginary sarcophagus around it. Most of the year, it indeed helps me soldiering on. My friend is slowly copying my solution because she fears that the hurting will...
The Skill-Will matrix
16 Mar, 2023
Last week, I was thinking of a new topic that includes 4 dimensions: ability (I can), willingness (I want to), permission (I may), and execution (I do). My research revealed the (unfamiliar) Skill-Will matrix that appears to have been developed by McKinsey & Company for Identifying employee skill gaps. various sources Of those 4 dimensions above, willing and...
Is it better being alone than being with the wrong one?
14 Mar, 2023
I heard the phrase above ("it's better being alone than being with with wrong one") in Cold Feet, a series rated 8.2 in IMDb. This phrase has quite some hits on the internet. Nevertheless, a recent scientific study disagrees: "Even an unhappy marriage is better for you than being alone" (Times-2023). This remarkable difference may well relate to the difference...
Do we fear to embrace Hope?
8 Mar, 2023
A macro perspective will teach us that "life is better today than it has ever been before" (eg, Steven Pinker-2018). A micro focus will teach us that our life is governed by a polycrisis (eg, Bloomberg-2022). When both views are valid then why do most people make a choice for the micro view? Hence, my question: do we fear to embrace Hope? Something similar...
The silo mentality in scientific articles
23 Feb, 2023
Last week, I noticed a Big Think article: Why are flood myths so common in stories from ancient cultures around the world? I've written about this in several blogs (eg, my 2016 blog). Actually, there is no flood myth; it's part of our geological history. Also see Wiki on the post-glacial sea level rise. The above might be viewed as yet another example of my recent...
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