The TV game show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, has the ask the audience lifeline. I found it quite rare for anyone to go against the audience popular opinion. This is partly linked to it: Finding it hard to believe that the large audience will be wrong The need to play it safe and …
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Self-herding is a form of heuristic technique of thinking. As Dan Ariely defines it, self herding is our tendency to follow the same decisions we have made in the past (i.e. our current or future decision are influenced by our previous decisions. )The concept has also been applied to animals… But, let’s stick to the human part.
We all want a stress-free life. Realistically, a stress-free life is not achievable. At different times in our lives, that is to say, we will go through stressful situations. For example, they say, living in Lagos, Nigeria is stressful on its own. However, managing stressful situations and adapting well towards growth can be summarized as …
What do you think about when you hear the word ‘resilience’ or ‘resilient’? Do you think of Sunday who has a deadline to pay back a loan before the interest rate doubles? Or Mary whose father just got diagnosed with stroke? How about Emeka, who lost his mom and the burial bills are worrisome? We …
https://media.giphy.com/media/jkPTSxuolA5jy/giphy.mp4 Shola is just getting back from lectures. His lecturer gave them a term paper to be submitted by the end of the semester, that’s in three months. He figures three months seems far away, so there’s no need to start immediately. He’ll start next week, for now, she has can rest. The next week …