At its core, the Getting Things Done (GTD) philosophy is all about freeing the mind. Ever found it difficult to focus on one thing because you have 37 others floating around your brain? What if I told you it's possible to hack your brain so [...]
Personality: does it change? And what does that mean for romance and career? It’s been a truism at weddings and marriage/dating/love conferences and messages: The person you marry will not be the person you are married to. My wife’s been married to five different people, [...]
Schedules mean stability and structure; both keys for productivity and mental health. If you don’t have a routine, are depressed and anxious, have trouble sleeping, maybe don’t even have a job or something to get you up in the morning, things can spiral out of [...]
While introversion is often stigmatized, extroversion is associated with addiction, personality disorders, and risky behaviour. [side note: extrAversion is also acceptable spelling] Extroversion: everyone’s favourite personality trait. On the surface anyway. Understandably so: extroversion is assertiveness, gregariousness, warmth, charisma, and social ability. All very endearing [...]
Get organized, productive, and mentally healthy with this short guide. Getting organized can do wonders for your mental health. Fact is, we crave function. We want to feel useful to others and ourselves. Feeling useless, or otherwise being poorly organized (lack of routine, etc.) directly [...]
Negative emotion (i.e. neuroticism) is manageable and, potentially, a powerful aid in life. People higher in neuroticism have more active fight and flight systems; they are more sensitive to stimulation and threat. [It looks like there’s overlap between neuroticism and what the scientific community is [...]
If you like fantasy, wacky things like anime, or respond quite emotionally to art or music, you might be high in trait openness. Chances are, you feel a bit like a weirdo at times. Likely, you're creative, open-minded, explorative, imaginative, abstract-minded, and higher in emotionality. Open [...]
Disclaimer! I’m not an expert on the Big Five, though I’ve been intaking a lot of content on it. This is some of what I’ve interpreted from the data and my own experience. Adventures in Self-Discovery Part 3 “I usually prefer to make a rough [...]
Agreeable people care well for others; not always for themselves. This post is part of a series - read Part 1 first. Agreeable people have big hearts. Love and compassion come easy; words tend to be tactful and careful. If you’re agreeable, you’re a peacekeeper, [...]
Understanding yourself is a fascinating process... but it's also a devastating one. Like many of my fellow Millennials and psychology nerds, the Myers-Briggs and Enneagram have granted me some cool personal insights. Recently, however, the Big Five has superseded them. An atheoretical scientific model of [...]
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