Author: Biljana Ognenova
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Psychology of Comedy: The Underestimated Power of the Dark Side of Laughter
This is the most important thing you need to keep in mind about the psychology of comedy if you want to make people laugh, and not cry. Freedom of speech? It is a chimerical web that can only be absolute on a one-man’s island. In social networks, its intricate boundaries are revealed when we remember…
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The Woman with a Mustache (Short Story)
People were giving me weird looks, couples whispering to each other, covering their mouths with their hands. I felt like I was in a Victorian era movie and that an unscrupulous ostracizing was waiting in the wings.
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How to Choose a Career as a Teenager
It is easy as a pie to choose a career as a teenager if you listen to your inner dragon. There is a dragon hidden in every girl before she hits puberty.
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How to Use Self-Doubt to Your Advantage
Self-doubt is the other side of the confidence coin. In a world where everything is about self-confidence as a market commodity, self-doubt becomes an undesirable asset. If you doubt yourself too much, you won’t take action, stand up for what you believe for, or fight for your rights. You will be a loser.
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How to Make Good Decisions that Snowball into Success
The average human makes 35,000 decisions a day. You get 35,000 chances a day to improve your life, and as many to blow it to pieces.
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5 Ways to Help Your Child Fight Bullies at School
The best way to fight bullies in school is to do something about it. You must not stand still and be quiet. You must support your child in the fight.
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How to Comfort Someone Who is Sad and Mourning
Life throws us curve balls and one of them is our inability to face its end. Unless you’ve lived in a family where processing hard stuff is easy (and I don’t know many of those), you are, like most of us, terribly equipped to deal with difficult emotions.
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Feel Tired All the Time? Give Yourself the Permission to Rest
Do you consider rest a luxury? I often do, but that is when energy and motivation about a project take over me, I run mostly on adrenaline and oxytocin, and I forget that, sooner or later, tiredness will take its toll.
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A Biocentric World: Is There Anything Outside Human Consciousness?
Like it or not, the Big Bang Theory doesn’t explain the birth of the universe. With the same level of defeatism, we must reluctantly admit that we haven’t yet produced the Theory of Everything. Perhaps the limitations of modern physics are such that they will never reach the final destination until we augment them with…
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Why Meditation is the Opposite of Resistance
What does it mean to meditate? There are numerous definitions of meditation. However, any person defining this effervescent notion struggles with the same problem. They are not completely happy about the wordage used to describe something that can only be experienced. Or as most yoga teachers tend to say: “Everything can be meditation.” It is…
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Yes, Dogs Can Help People with Dementia Heal
The sensory and perceptive world of dogs is entirely different than that of humans. Dogs live in the moment, are incredibly willing to give and seek attention, and don’t carry the burden of difficult neurotic emotions. If you ever doubted that dogs are admirable healers, here is the most recent proof. Can a Dog Help…
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