Category: Psychology

• On Relationships: Trust, Authenticity, and Communication

  What makes or breaks a relationship? This is what I have learnt and come to believe.

  valsaksornchai

  March 9, 2018

  Life, Love, Musings, Psychology, Uncategorized

  authenticity, communication, heart, Life, Relationship, trust

• “To take, or not to take”: Where Superstition Trumps Logic?

  

  Why would a rational being not take a stone from an island full of stones?

  valsaksornchai

  May 18, 2017

  Curiosities, Economics, Nature, Psychology, Reason, Thailand, Traveling

  3S, Andaman, argument, beautiful stones, blue, flaw, game theory, guilt, island, Koh Hin Ngam, Lipe, logic, long-tail, magic trees, opinion, proof, research, sand, Satun, Sea, snorkelling, stone, Stone God, sun, superstition, superstitution, Thailand, tourist, tower, voting, wish

• The Virtues of Boredom: An Interview (The Atlantic)

  A reflective interview with Mary Mann about the virtues of boredom

  valsaksornchai

  May 14, 2017

  Curiosities, Life, Mind, Psychology, Self

  adulthood, Book, boredom, control, Julie Beck, Mary Mann, teenage, War

• #Try

  One of those songs I will always come back to: p.s. Have I told you that I sing?

  valsaksornchai

  October 17, 2014

  Life, Music, Psychology, Self

  Colbie Caillat, Music, Song, Try

• Maria on the Psychology of Writing

  For the writers and creative thinkers out there: The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine. I revisit this regularly to encourage myself in my writing endeavours. Think of the following excerpt as a teaser for Maria’s brilliant article, which you should consider reading in its entirety. A person can think…

  valsaksornchai

  September 26, 2014

  Personalities, Psychology, Self, Writing

  author, behavioural cue, Brainpickings, Cafe, cognitive, concentration, Creativity, daily routine, desk, discipline, distraction, environment, Facebook, flow, habit, Hemingway, Kellogg, Maria Popova, Music, noise, Psychology, quiet, routine, science, sleep, social media, success, Thought, tolerance, Twitter, Virginia Woolf, work, writer, writer’s block, Writing, youth

• Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success (TED)

  

  … it’s bad enough not getting what you want. But it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn’t in fact what you wanted all along.

  valsaksornchai

  September 14, 2014

  Life, Psychology, Talks

  Alain de botton, anxiety, career, career crisis, crisis, envy, failure, Ferrari, greed, hierarchy, hope, human, job, judgment, loser, materialism, meritocracy, newspaper, ownership, respect, rewards, snob, snobbery, success, TED, time, tragedy

• Labels: Useful Heuristics or Dangerous Stereotypes?

  

  They say love blinds and power corrupts. Well, I’m starting to think morality is pretty good at both. When I was depressed in early 2013, I began attending weekly CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) sessions in the hope that it would make me better. During one of these sessions, the therapist (counsellor? psychiatrist? I never quite…

  valsaksornchai

  March 9, 2014

  Curiosities, Economics, Life, Mind, Politics, Psychology, Thailand

  Americans, awareness, brain, CBT, cognition, Depression, doctors, Education, ignorant American, label, labelling, labels, moral, morality, philosophy, Politics, Psychology, stereotype, stereotypes, stereotyping, super computers, Thailand, world

• Maria on Character

  Brain Pickings: What is Character? Debunking the Myth of Fixed Personality Who am I? What is my character? What is my personality? These are questions that intrigue or trouble me according to the mood of the day. And I have been known to let myself be crushed under the weight of their unanswerability at the…

  valsaksornchai

  March 6, 2014

  Psychology, Self

  brain, brain pickings, change, character, dream, feeling, Maria Popova, myth, neuroscience, person, personality, Psychology, self, temperament

• Maria on Living in the Age of Anxiety

  Another thoughtful piece from Maria on life (and living) in the modern era. I particularly enjoyed this quote from Alan Watts: The “primary consciousness,” the basic mind which knows reality rather than ideas about it, does not know the future. It lives completely in the present, and perceives nothing more than what is at this moment. The…

  valsaksornchai

  February 8, 2014

  Learning, Life, Psychology, Reason

  Alan Watts, anxiety, brain pickings, concentration, East, future, Happiness, learning, Life, Living, Maria Popova, mind, mindfulness, philosophy, presence, productivity, Psychology, West

• How Not To Worry: A 1934 Guide to Mastering Life (Maria)

  I’m finding interesting parallels between Maria’s “How Not To Worry: A 1934 Guide to Mastering Life” and this TED talk I posted earlier today. Maybe there is a higher wisdom after all.

  valsaksornchai

  January 9, 2014

  Curiosities, Humour, Learning, Life, Mind, Psychology, Random, Self

  1934, Book, Brainpickings, Dan Gilbert, guide, how to, James Gordon Gilkey, Life, Maria Popova, master, ripped, TED, vintage finds, worries, worrying, You Can Master Life