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  • Blogs

Everyone has a story

Meeting people helps you grow and learn new perspectives. These perspectives often arise only when you notice that the average passerby is living a life as dynamic and layered as yours. Their own person with their own story, ambitions, routines and idiosyncrasies. The English term for that realization is "sonder.
Woman using a fad room as stress release for temporary solution. Dealing with stress requires change of mindset.
  • Blogs

Dealing with stress stimuli

If you ask any professional how things are going, chances are their answer will start with: “busy.” Busy with work, with family, socializing. Somewhere along…

Work of brain and thoughts when we think we are being helped.
  • Blogs

The placebo effect of AI

Most of us know the story of the sugar pill: a patient is given a pill without any active substance and still feels better. Not…

  • Blogs

The impact of a coaching leadership style

In most organizations, coaching employees has become a familiar concept. Research by Daniel Goleman clearly shows that a coaching leadership style delivers stronger results over…

  • Blogs

Responding more flexibly under pressure

Big, new challenges, are not usually solved with old mechanisms. Yet many people automatically switch back to old patterns precisely at times when flexibility is…

multiple people in a field cannot make a choice
  • Blogs

The paradox of choosing

Choices must be made throughout the day. The number of choices is growing, but so is the variety. More choice should give you more freedom, right? It works just a little differently. Abundance sometimes paralyzes. You put off choices or become paralyzed and avoid them altogether. This creates choice stress: you become overwhelmed with information or fear making the wrong choice. In extreme cases, that stress can contribute to exhaustion or even burnout. Not being paralyzed by that choice stress requires a clear approach that makes choosing lighter.
marionette attitude of a person to influence
  • Blogs

8 ways to influence effectively

Influential people have a noticeable effect on those around them. They fulfill their potential because they work focused and consistently to grow. How they do…

a crosswalk is a form of nudging in traffic
  • Blogs

Nudging to guide choices

You don’t always have the time or space to make informed choices. The immediate environment therefore plays a major role. Not only other people, but…

carice van houten in the YEARTH podcast series 'lesson learned'
  • Interview

Lesson Learned: Carice van Houten

Carice van Houten likes to make things difficult for herself. She loves to tackle the impossible, prefers to play roles she has to 'fight' with and therefore regularly steps out of her comfort zone. Often without a plan or strategy but always on feeling and intuition. "I like to challenge myself. I want to feel that I am alive," says the actress.
  • Blogs

The key to effective communication

The idea of your thoughts coming directly to someone else…. it’s like Startrek. Yet research shows it is possible. Researchers had participants use brain activity…

erik van gend in conversation with richard krajicek
  • Interview

In conversation with Richard Krajicek

What drives successful people? What distinguishes them? What enables them to excel and make a difference? In search of answers to these questions, Erik van…

  • Blogs

In 21 days from desired behavior to habit

How long does it take to learn a new habit? It is sometimes said that learning a new habit takes 21 days. It sounds appealing,…

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