Tag: “Mental Health”

Gaining Control Through Capture:

A couple of decades ago I made the worst financial decision of my life. I invested almost all of my savings in a company that went bankrupt a few months later. Although at the time it seemed like a fairly rational decision (although not without risk), the truth is that it wasn’t. I made that decision in a moment of euphoria, just after I had made a small amount of money with a similar investment shortly before.

Setting routines is sometimes a controversial topic. There are people who love to have a solid structure to move through their day-to-day lives, and there are people – especially artists and people with very creative jobs – who don’t like to have any kind of strict schedule that might constrain their creativity.

Information overload is a phenomenon that has been studied and written about by researchers and experts in fields such as psychology, sociology, information and business science.

Cutting back on your sleep time because you have to work is, generally speaking, a bad idea. Sometimes it may seem necessary because someone has set an arbitrary deadline for a certain project and you have to spend a few days working 14 hours to make it on time.