Do you have a favorite color? Do you realize that color can reveal aspects of your personality? Take a look at your wardrobe. Is it full of one particular color? Do you gravitate to one or two colors and never wear certain shades? Colors have a strong psychological effect on…
Our language is a wonderful tool. We use it to communicate our innermost thoughts and feelings. Writers in particular love to seek out words that add nuance and layers to their work. But in doing so, they can sometimes pick commonly misused words. It can be tempting to pop that…
If you are an ISTJ type, you will want to know what the best careers for the Logistician personality are. After all, who wants to spend years studying or working in the wrong job? But to understand which careers suit this personality type, we should first look at the traits…
There are many theories as to why we dream, but dreams about animals are particularly interesting. We use animals in our everyday lives to describe certain aspects of human behaviour. For example, we ‘horse’ around with our friends when we have fun, we call a person a ‘snake’ if we…
We all like to think we have free will and make our own decisions in life, but in actual fact, we are programmed at an early age by social conditioning. Social conditioning is a set of rules and behavior dictated to us by society. It’s very easy to see how…
Our language is full of weird words that look as if they mean one thing but actually imply something completely different. For example, take the word bucolic. If you didn’t already know what this word meant, you might surmise that it was a medical word connected to an illness of…
If you’re reading this, it stands to reason that you are feeling anxious and are looking for tools such as CBT techniques to calm your anxiety. Anxiety is a particularly devious beast. It’s there for a reason, to give us the necessary fight or flight tools we need to survive.…
Some words are so intrinsically embedded into our unconscious that we don’t even realise they are foreign words. Take the internationally-known distress call of ‘May Day!’ for example. It derives from the French verb for help – 'aider'. In the 1920s, people were getting used to new international radio communications.…
