Art by Alessandra Olanow (@aolanow published 26/06/19 ig) Good news! We made it through the longest night of the year (in the northern hemisphere) and lived to see the sunrise once again... While the pandemic has been raining on our parades for what feels like forever this winter solstice reminded me of a piece of writing by @Brad Montague: The sun showed up again, So I looked up and asked it: "Why?" The sun looked down and brightly whispered "To give you another try." Winter Solstice has been an important event throughout human history because for the longest time we were connected to nature given that we were subject to the elements, many cultures and religions celebrate holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, and pagan festivals) that coincide with the return of longer days. These celebrations usually symbolize the opportunity for renewal, a shedding of bad habits and negative feelings, and an embracing of hope amid darkness as the days once again begin to g
In august last year I read a post by @Syattfitness that caused a deep impact on my way of thinking and changed me for the better, by helping me remember I can always take the emotional component of any decision with a grain of salt. Jordan Syatt is a fitness expert I deeply respect, I follow his content across platforms on a dialy basis and when he posted this on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/220897687966326/posts/3438045356251527/) He mentioned the term impact bias which I was completely unfamiliar with, so I decided to look more into it. Impact bias is the tendency we all have to overestimate the lenght and intensity that future emotional states and events will have in our lives. We try to predict how an event will play out and how it'll make us feel, to make decisions, however when making this predictions we are subject to biases we don't take into consideration thinking we know for sure how something will make us feel in the future. (You know the &q