Humor, Psychology 2 December 2009

We are living in an era of information overload, and we feel obliged to categorize and tag everything and everyone. We put labels and brands on stuff, starting from our clothes to our food to our emotions. We put up little avatars and 140 characters on our biographies as if they could summarize who we are or what’s going on in our lives. News flash: they can’t. Not even remotely.

 Humor, Positivity, Psychology 11 November 2009

No words of insight today. Just this video.

 Personal Development, Psychology 10 October 2009

I love to observe people.
Yesterday, I was at a party where a bunch of people played a mime-word-guessing game. It was very funny to see all the different reactions some people had to the same word or concept and their attempts to display it using only body language. We all had great laughs. But at one point, I caught myself on a thought that I was enjoying this game for another reason. I found a unique opportunity to observe how different people think and act. And then I started drawing conclusions about their personalities, knowledge or sense of humor. Here’s an example.