Iatrogenics – Look before you Intervene!

Iatrogenics – Look before you Intervene!

If you look up ‘Iatrogenics’ on Google, you will find numerous definitions of the word relating to the harmful effects of medical intervention. Iatrogenics was first used to describe the consequences that were inadvertently induced by a healer in an attempt to solve a...
Regrets – How to Not Look Back!

Regrets – How to Not Look Back!

Recently, a friend sent me a poster that said: ‘Let’s talk! If someone gave you a box containing everything you have lost in your life, what would be the first thing you would search for?’ Stop for a while and think about what this one thing would be for you? A...
Denial – The Unhealthy Defense Mechanism

Denial – The Unhealthy Defense Mechanism

Denial is one of the many self defense mechanisms that our brain develops. It is an unconscious act in which we refuse to admit or recognize some event, habit, or reality. Denial sounds like a bad word. It sounds as if we are consciously not agreeing to what is right...
Decision Making – The ‘Other’ Kind of Risk

Decision Making – The ‘Other’ Kind of Risk

A fair number of people I meet have issues with decision making. I have written about some ways in which decision making can be made easier. The techniques mentioned are best when the question at hand is not easily solvable with a pros and cons list. In such cases,...
How to Start Listening to your Gut

How to Start Listening to your Gut

Intuition or gut feeling has been reduced to a lot of hocus-pocus in the past. As the world moved towards more emphasis on data, analytics, and rationale, the concept of intuition was pushed back as illogical and scattered. It’s not considered real because it is not...
Self-Awareness via the Lost Art of Introspection

Self-Awareness via the Lost Art of Introspection

It is no surprise that we have lost the art of introspection given the rush that we seem to be in. Life has become busy. In addition to that, the definition of productive work has changed in society to mean ‘work that produces money’. In fact, a lot of people admonish...