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Healing Space | Should you pick a side?

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Healing Space | Should you pick a side?

We are constantly called upon to pick a side. But we are also being shown that it is better not to. How to resist the manipulation of group think.

Healing Space | Are you constantly taking on work that is not yours to do?

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Healing Space | Are you constantly taking on work that is not yours to do?

You may think you’re helping, but maybe you’re a white knight.

Healing Space | How the IT sector created the moonlighter

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Healing Space | How the IT sector created the moonlighter

In a gig economy, when workers are on contract, frequently benched, and often uncertain about job security, to demand loyalty is exploitative.

Healing Space | The Federer rapture

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Healing Space | The Federer rapture

What drives Federer fans into such paroxysms of ecstasy and vows of devotion? As he retires from the game, we explore his allure.

Healing Space | Long working hours are emotionally unhygienic

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Healing Space | Long working hours are emotionally unhygienic

You may think putting in more hours at work makes you look hard-working, but it’s actually a sign of poor management skills, a poor health focus, and low self-esteem.

Healing Space | How to think about death

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Healing Space | How to think about death

We avoid thoughts of death, labelling them inauspicious or morbid. However, having a correct view of death is critical to normalize our end-of-life notions.

Healing Space | Live a lateral, less lonely life

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Healing Space | Live a lateral, less lonely life

Sometimes the solution to loneliness is not where the problem is. Living expansively gives you more options.

Healing Space | Self-attribution is killing your portfolio

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Healing Space | Self-attribution is killing your portfolio

We attribute the rise of legendary investors to their personal talent rather than a finely honed skill. How to use that difference well.

Healing Space | The Bullet train of barreling thoughts

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Healing Space | The Bullet train of barreling thoughts

Thoughts can be intrusive and relentless. Some ways to identify and stop them.

Healing Space | Freedom from our collective trauma

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Healing Space | Freedom from our collective trauma

The ways in which we aggravate or resolve our collective trauma defines how we heal as a collective.

Healing Space | Network consciously for best effect

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Healing Space | Network consciously for best effect

Networking can feel exhausting and manipulative or insincere. Here are meaningful ways to connect through your work.

Healing Space | Elon Musk, Ranveer Singh, Ashneer Grover are on a bus. Whom do you sit next to?

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Healing Space | Elon Musk, Ranveer Singh, Ashneer Grover are on a bus. Whom do you sit next to?

How much should you care about what others are saying about you? And how much should it direct the course of your actions? The psychology of other-centredness.

Healing Space | Have you been forgetting things lately?

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Healing Space | Have you been forgetting things lately?

With age and stress, we tend to forget more often. How to keep your memory fit.

Healing Space | Deal or no deal? What backing out means

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Healing Space | Deal or no deal? What backing out means

If you have invested in a commitment you can no longer honour, does backing out always mean you bungled?

Healing Space | Are ‘they’ really against ‘us’? How conspiracy thinking gets you

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Healing Space | Are ‘they’ really against ‘us’? How conspiracy thinking gets you

Collective suspicion compounds until it becomes this widely held conspiratorial belief. What is the truth?

Healing Space | How to avoid internalising global anger

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Healing Space | How to avoid internalising global anger

Anger is offered to us as ‘public sentiment’. Everyone is angry these days. How do you avoid being sucked in?

Healing Space | Stop normalizing your stress

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Healing Space | Stop normalizing your stress

5 key areas where we might need mental health support, but often don't realize it.

Healing Space | Inflation is mental first, economic later

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Healing Space | Inflation is mental first, economic later

Inflation can trigger our anxieties which in turn can make us act in ways that fuel more inflation, causing meltdowns both in the market and in the mind. Here’s how.

Healing Space | Saying things you don’t mean to

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Healing Space | Saying things you don’t mean to

Did you really not mean them or are you retracting what you said after the backlash? How to argue mindfully and why you keep saying things you don’t mean to say in the heat of the moment.

Healing Space | The catharsis of KK

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Healing Space | The catharsis of KK

Music is a powerful medium by which we identify and live out our grief, sorrow, hopes, joys and ambitions. KK represented all that and more.

Healing Space | Learning how to fail well

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Healing Space | Learning how to fail well

We are so focused on success that we forget to learn how to fail. It’s equally important.

Healing Space | Bull or Bear, the markets swing and pull you along. How to ride the wave

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Healing Space | Bull or Bear, the markets swing and pull you along. How to ride the wave

Bouncebackability is the capacity of the markets to rebound after a crash. In terms of your mental health, it is your resilience, your ability to recover after a fall.

Healing Space | Going obsolete in the job market?

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Healing Space | Going obsolete in the job market?

Every day, younger people with newer skills join the workforce. Your skill set is becoming irrelevant. Here’s why your ability to keep pace is in your mind.

Healing Space | Men face abuse too. Men need mental health help too

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Healing Space | Men face abuse too. Men need mental health help too

Johnny Depp or not, men are also victims of abuse and trauma, emotional stresses and strains, and need timely mental health interventions.

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