Albert Alcaine i Peralta
You have probably seen how construction work on a building starts. The first thing to do is to look for a suitable location and study the qualities of the land. If the area where you want to build is suitable, the next thing to do is to start the excavation…
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There are the rightists, and there are the leftists. There is capitalism on the one hand, and the less successful but still valid communism on the other. There is machismo, which is at a low ebb, and on the other side feminism, with a growing media power. Some favour a…
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More than half of Generation Z are willing to consider a non-monogamous relationship, but liberal relationships and swinging are not just for zetas . 41.4% of Spaniards agree to have sex outside a couple . There is a growing curiosity to explore open relationships and to leave behind the traditional…
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Histrionic personality disorder usually emerges in adolescence and is one of the most difficult conditions to treat. It requires a great deal of commitment to the person and the surrounding environment. Attention-seeking, exaggerated behaviour, intense and unmeasured emotional reactions, a pattern where seduction is a constant resource in all forms…
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“Don’t suffer, that’s nothing” or “you’re an exaggerator because you take everything too much to heart“… Phrases like these are invalidating your emotions. There are many ways to invalidate your emotions and, in fact, it can even be a recurring problem in your relationship. Allowing another person to have their…
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Abigail Marsh tells us in one of her lectures on altruism how when she was 19 years old, on her way home, she swerved to ski a dog and ended up in the oncoming lane of the motorway. He stopped and thought he was going to die and was left…
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And whether we know any drama king or queen! Everything beats them! Everything goes wrong for them! Now then… What’s behind these emotional reactions? What could be going wrong? (more…)
Depression is a pandemic: if your partner is depressed, they may ask to be alone, and it is important to avoid judgement and pressure. But neither is it good to contribute to their isolation: empathy is important to manage the situation. (more…)
Through Toxic People we discover ten types of people who, far from bringing healthy relationships, are best kept away from us. (more…)
With the COVID-19 pandemic, a seed that was already growing burst forth abruptly and powerfully: teleworking. Some said it was here to stay, but the truth is that it was already widely practised in some companies. Teleworking brings many benefits if applied ethically, but it also has some drawbacks. But…
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Kenneth Wilber (b. 1949), better known as Ken Wilber, is an American writer whose main interests are in philosophy, psychology, comparative religion, history, ecology and mysticism. (more…)
Simply put, they are those things or situations that have the capacity to make us respond without deliberation. Could we include the mother-in-law in this definition? Now we shall see… (more…)
Sunflowers swing both ways, yes, but it is perhaps less common to know that, in reality, when they grow densely in a field, they adopt a zigzag pattern with their neighbours, and lean in opposite directions to catch as much light as possible and avoid the shade of fellow plants.…
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Shouting at children, slapping or shaking them to discipline them repeatedly causes changes in their brains that, in adolescence, make it difficult for them to manage emotions and fear. (more…)
It has always been said that there are questions we can never answer.... Kant said so, in fact, so this goes back a long way. Artificial intelligence might be able to give us a hand, who knows... But not too long ago, an experiment was carried out with hungry, half-decomposed…
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We show empathy when we are able to understand the emotions and points of view of others. This value is the basis of all relationships: the ability to understand emotionally what others experience and to understand things from their point of view. (more…)
In 1953, Roald Dahl published “The Great Automatic Grammatizator“, a story about an engineer who wanted to be an anonymous writer. The day after completing the construction of the world’s fastest calculating machine, he realised that English grammar is governed by quasi-mathematical rules. So he built a fiction writing machine…
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“I’ll be 10 minutes”, “I’m getting there”… I’m sure you’ve heard these phrases more than once… Or maybe it’s you who has uttered them. There are people who always repeat this pattern, arriving late, no matter what the plan is. Is it disrespectful? Let’s have a look… (more…)
Almost everyone who shares a hug is a great comfort, peace… Science has studied its effects and some of them are quite interesting. Science has studied their effects and some of them are quite interesting. How can such a simple gesture bring us so much relief? Why do they comfort…
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In 2013, in the series Black Mirror, the concept of digital resurrection was already anticipated in the episode I’ll be right back. The protagonist used AI-based software to generate new conversations with her boyfriend, who had died in a car accident. Today, it is already a reality, and has become…
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