All You Need Is A Canoe

Emotions.

We all have them, we all have to live with them.
And we have to make sure that they don't influence us in a negative way. That may sound easier than it actually is, as a study by Dan Ariely seems to show (I say "seem" because of what I wrote in my post "Why Don't You Prove It?", which you can check out here).

In his book The Upside of Irrationality he writes about the problem of negative feelings and how they tend to influence our behavior (and especially decision-making) in a chapter entitled The Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Emotions. 

What American Football and Dating Have in Common

I've never tried online dating. I don't think I ever will.
But if you had asked me why I don't want to give it a try, I would not have had a very reasonable answer for you. It was just a feeling, a hunch that I wouldn't really enjoy it, that it wouldn't lead to finding a long-term partner anyway. I couldn't explain it... until now.

How to Enjoy the Hot Tub

I love reading. People who know me well can confirm that, I'm sure. Recently I started reading a book called The Upside of Irrationality (The unexpected benefits of defying logic at work and at home) by Dan Ariely and yesterday I stumbled on a - in my opinion - very interesting chapter entitled On Adaptation. The subtitle says Why We Get Used to Things (but Not All Things, and Not Always), which intrigued me right from the start, because I'm usually good at adapting. I tend to see myself as a pretty "flexible" person that doesn't have too much trouble adapting to new surroundings, new people, etc. So I was curious to find out if there was something new I could learn about adaptation and especially if it is always a good thing.