Tag: Psychology
How the shows you watch are quietly teaching you marketing
Marketing lessons from TV shows are rarely what people expect to find. But they are there. In every episode. Not a textbook. Not a lecture. Not a course you paid for. The shows you watch late at night. The characters you follow. The lines that surface in your mind weeks later when you are doing…
Why does music give you chills? the science behind Frisson
Why does music give you chills? Because your brain just did something extraordinary. It predicted beauty. And it was right. That shiver down your spine has a name. Scientists call it frisson, from the French word for a brief but intense feeling. Most people describe it as goosebumps, a sudden tightening in the chest, hair…
An Astrologers Day by RK Narayan: the con man who told the truth
An Astrologer’s Day by RK Narayan is a story about a fraud. A man who knows nothing about the stars. Who cannot read the future. Who sits under a tamarind tree every day in a busy market and tells people what they need to hear so they will pay him and go home. He is…
Therapy generation anxiety: the paradox nobody wants to admit
Therapy generation anxiety is the paradox nobody in the mental health industry wants to talk about. Generation Z is the most therapised generation in history. More young people are in therapy, talking about their feelings, using mental health language, and identifying their emotional states than at any previous point in recorded human history. The stigma…
From trusting everyone to trusting no one but yourself
What nobody tells you about moving abroad alone is the sea of questions to come. Nobody warns you about the silence. Not the silence of an empty apartment. Not the silence of a city that does not know your name. The silence that sets in when you realise that for the first time in your…
Why do we rehearse arguments that never happen?
Why do we rehearse arguments that never happen? Because the brain cannot tell the difference between a problem that has been resolved and a problem that has been rehearsed to death. You have done it today, probably. A conversation in your head with someone who was not there. You said exactly the right thing. They…
Why Nothing Feels Real Anymore: the strange experience nobody talks about
Why nothing feels real anymore is not a question most people ask out loud. They sit with it. They notice it at odd moments. On a Tuesday evening doing something ordinary. In a conversation that sounds like a conversation they are having but does not quite feel like one. Looking at their own hands and…
Deep questions to ask someone to know them better (that actually work)
Deep questions to ask someone to know them better are rarer than they should be. Most conversations stay on the surface because both people let them. You talk about work. About plans. About what you watched recently. You leave knowing roughly the same amount about the other person as you did before you sat down.…
The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty: the last line that changes everything
The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty is not a long story. You can read it in eight minutes. Maybe ten if you pause at the ending, which you will. Most people do. You were probably fourteen or fifteen when you first met it. A classroom. A textbook. A teacher asking about themes and literary devices. You…
Five good things that happened in march 2026 that nobody told you about
There is good news March 2026. There is actually a lot of it. The problem is where you have been looking. It is not a rhythm designed to make you feel good about the world. It is a rhythm designed to keep you watching. Alarm. Outrage. Dread. Refresh. Repeat. What gets lost in that rhythm…
