There's a wonderful article on PsychologyToday regarding confidence, called Confidence: Stepping Out. It gives a rough overview of what confidence is, as well as a few tips on how to develop it. This four-page article also describes an interesting experiment relating the similarities and differences between two groups that had to give an impromptu speech.... Continue Reading →
I always take personality tests every once in a while, just to know if and when my personality does change. The test that I have always believed has been the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI test. It has consistently provided me the most accurate assessment of my personality, and has directed me toward the resolution... Continue Reading →
A terminally ill 15-year-old boy has one final wish: to not die a virgin.
The passages quoted below can be found in the book Fundamentals of Negotiation by Gerard Nierenberg. I'm sharing these with you because of the insight it has provided me regarding the techniques in dealing with people. I especially enjoyed the second passage, where Nierenberg asks the reader the question, "are you more interested in their... Continue Reading →
A rainbow is a spectrum of light. Just like a man is a spectrum of personalities.
One becomes angry due to limited options, the lack of alternatives to it. Anger achieves certain goals, including a release of inner-tension; what other method can achieve these same goals too?
I've long believed personality to be pretty much nature as opposed to nurture, and that it doesn't change much. But after the events of these past few weeks, I took another personality test and realised that I've changed.
Man is but an animal, is he not? This child molester writes not like a psycho, as you would expect, but a man who wishes he could change, though knowing full well he cannot.
There is a tendency to think that since it isn't biological, it is easily changeable. It is perhaps time, for most of us, to think again.
A conversation on love. Might silence save a relationship? My views on relationship matters.
Donn, fragments 