Human Behaviour
Why do we worry about things we can’t control? Why do we keep returning to the same thoughts, even when they don’t serve us? Why is consistency so hard, and change so easy to put off?
We have reasons for what we do, even when we don’t see them. Understanding the patterns underneath our behaviour, not to fix ourselves, but to know ourselves is empowering to say the least and is often the first step to anything actually changing.
Here you’ll find articles on behavioural science, psychology, and lived experience to make sense of why being human can feel so difficult and the deeper mechanics of why we do what we do.
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The more likely we genuinely enjoy something or are interested in it, the more likely we are to do it. Why Enjoyment Drives Action We have an invested interest in…
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Each of us has a deep curiosity about why things are the way they are, why they happen, and why we do the things we do. And while this can…
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When false urgency arises, it often leads to decisions that we will later regret. But what exactly is it? What exactly is false urgency? What Is False Urgency? False urgency…
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Whether it’s our mother, brother, sister, father, auntie, uncle, cousin, a great friend, or even a stranger on the street, seeing people, especially our loved ones, upset, distraught, struggling, or…
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There are lots of challenges to being a people pleaser. One of them is sitting on the fence. Indecisiveness. Someone asks… Would you like to go to the cinema or…
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Whether someone is driven or dragged is almost impossible to tell on the surface. It’s a personal thing that each of us has to question and ask ourselves to discover…
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Here’s an insight you may or may not have considered… We don’t hear what others say. We hear through our lens of the world. This isn’t on purpose. In my…
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Sorry to bring up the dreaded topic of COVID… After five years from its outbreak (at the time of writing), this topic has, strangely enough, come up in many conversations…
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The idea that we eventually get fed up with our own bullshit and want to change and grow, because we know a better version of ourselves is within, is something…
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The more I understand human behaviour and our psychology, the more I realise how unconscious we are of our unconscious behaviours… And the “things” in the background that are often…
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