Category Well-being

I grew up in a very different world than today. My mother and my grandmothers often tried to train me to follow social rules, moral rules. I am not sure that is practiced very often in the world we live…

Preface I am not an economist and I do not have a degree or any relevant education, but as I like to mention, I watch a lot of lectures by economists from all over the world and I follow the…

I was born and raised as a Jew in Israel, I still have family and friends there, it’s not easy to look at what’s going on there these days without seeing this period as days of turbulence, of uncertainty, of…

Recently I had to rethink everything I knew about our body’s healing powers. Over a period of about 6 months I was made to deal with an illness and injury that gave me a new perspective on our body’s healing…

Preface For a long time I was reluctant to write anything on the subject, I felt there was something missing in the whole debate.A debate between Noam Chomsky and a BBC radio interviewer gave me a much needed perspective on…

Most people are born into what I call the shame/blame game. Their inner self and the people around them mislead them into blaming themselves and others, driving their entire lives down a very specific path of despair and dissatisfaction.I have…

Preface Unlike most people, I try to observe and learn new things by being more aware of the life around me. I do not wear a white coat, I do not spend most of my day in a closed lab,…

Gain and loss in every decision In one of the episodes of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”, Neil deGrasse Tyson said something interesting that I want to repeat to make a point. He said that when we turned on the electricity…