On the journey
Have you ever felt your mind got completely stuck on a single stressful thought? It usually starts with something small going wrong. It might be a sharp comment from someone or the sudden realization that a huge deadline is looming. Suddenly, overthinking occurs and your brain starts spinning in a fast, repetitive circle. Overthinking feels […]
The novel Seyir (The Experiment) opens with a haunting confrontation in a mirror. “Do you recognize the person staring back,” the narrative asks, “or are you confronting a stranger curated for public consumption?” In Piraye’s Seyir, we meet Mina (the main character) on her wedding day a moment traditionally synonymous with joy and self-actualization. Yet, […]
It was not so long ago my mind was a great chaos. I was worried about almost everything, rushing all day long. Then I met psychology one day and recognized how practicing it daily changed my mind and my life forever. Through theoretical knowledge and life experience, my knowledge accumulated over time. I have been […]
Life is proceeding at full pace. Most of our days pass in a great rush. Our minds can be very distracted from the day’s rush, multiple tasks, and relentless to-dos. Managing home is one thing; work is another. Then things start to get out of control at some point. We start experiencing great failure; it […]
Imagine that you were born in completely in another side of the world. Living in another country is not easy, there are many challenges that come with expat life. Many of us go to another country with lots of hopes, a good life, exciting challenges. Then the first year comes, it is a honeymoon on […]
Centuries ago, philosophers questioned what exactly happiness was. Even an ancient Greek word, eudaimonia, is derived from it. According to some, it is health and wealth; to others, it is poverty. Everyone perceives the world from different frames and derives different meanings from it. By etymology, happy means chance and fortune in English culture, and […]
Not so long ago, my days were passing in a great rush; I was squeezed in between an agenda full of appointments and to-dos and the feeling of not being enough. It was not so long ago that panic and anxiety had become my default inner state. Life was like a long run, and every […]
Persuasion is “an attempt to change attitudes and or behaviors using the information systems”(Fogg, 2002). Attitudes are derived from the expectations and experiences of an object, person or a concept. Behaviors are the outcome of actions performed by individuals. Captology is the acronym used for computers as persuasive technologies. The key predictors of persuasion are […]