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Have you ever noticed how strongly culture shapes our perception? Cities hold one set of values, the countryside another, and between neighbouring nationalities the differences are more striking still. Here it is fashionable, and psychologically healthy, to separate from your parents and build everything yourself, whereas among more southern peoples that is all but unthinkable. Or take attitudes to family. The further south you go, the earlier it is held that there is no life without it, for a m

My friend Miroslava — Mira to her friends — had astonished me ever since our university days with her incredible logic and with the uses she found for it. My favourite example: everywhere and always she stressed how independent she was, how she had absolutely no need of men whatsoever, and at the same time she was devoutly certain that every man around was making eyes at her. Well, if not at her, then perhaps at me, however much I denied it. It was rather like counting up the signs of attention

The fear of taking action inside us is very often not a fear of moving forward and growing, but a fear of making a mistake. In sessions with clients, when we look into why a person is not acting, we very often find that they are afraid of doing the wrong thing. And that fear ties them hand and foot, quite literally. So today, taking the fear of action apart, we shall talk about the failures that frighten us so much.

You often hear from people who are into sport that BCAAs are their main supplement, the one that helps them lose weight without losing muscle. Let us work out what this magic pill really is You often hear from people who are into sport that BCAAs are their main supplement, the one that helps them lose weight without losing muscle. Let us work out what this magic pill really is