Boiled Frog Syndrome, Tall Poppy, Pollyanna Effect
Three common cognitive biases can affect both our personal and professional lives. These biases are the boiled frog syndrome, the tall...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Mar 11
- 13 min
HSP Highly Sensitive Person - what is their uniqueness?
The term Highly Sensitive Person HSP was first coined by psychologist Elaine Aron (1996), who herself is a person with high sensitivity...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Jan 13
- 4 min
Loneliness in the crowd. How do you feel about yourself?
Each of us is looking for a recipe for a happy life. We are watching the world. We talk to people. We read books.
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Sep 13, 2022
- 2 min
Ahimsa - do not cause unnecessary suffering
Do you know Ahimsa? The Buddhist root of the Non-Violent Communication method?
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Aug 29, 2022
- 2 min
Renoir - the pain passes and the beauty stays
When Renoir hardly left his home in the last years of his life, Matisse visited him daily. An inspiring story about the victory of...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- May 3, 2022
- 4 min
Franz Kafka - biography, doll story, fun facts, quotes
At the age of 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who had never married and had no children of his own, was walking in a park in Berlin.
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
The parable of the man in the swamp. Wise support coaching
A man had a misfortune - he fell into the swamp and began to sob with a sense of hopelessness. Good people came ...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Feb 2, 2022
- 3 min
The parable of hammering the nails. Words are of great importance
Once upon a time, there was a boy with a bad character. His father gave him a sack of nails and asked him to hammer in one each time he...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Nov 21, 2021
- 3 min
Keanu Reeves - biography, quotes
Sometimes I go out and hear people talking about unimportant things. Then I know why I leave so rarely.
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Aug 29, 2021
- 5 min
Imposter syndrome - how to deal with it
You work hard to get recognized at work. You have the constant feeling that you are not getting things done well enough. As if you are...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Aug 27, 2021
- 4 min
Self-esteem Coaching. Money - how much are YOU worth?
Are we sure that with full conviction and without anxiety we can say that having a lot of money is a great thing?
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Aug 17, 2021
- 2 min
Shake it off! About a donkey that could not be buried alive
One day a donkey fell into a dry well. The animal whined miserably for hours while its owner, a farmer, tried to figure out how to help him.
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Jul 14, 2021
- 5 min
Assertiveness at work
Shelle Rose Charvet in her book Words That Change Minds describes the "Dogs and Cats" model at work ...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Jun 19, 2021
- 5 min
Human personal development – ep. 2
At each new level of development, you begin to see what you were immersed in on the previous level. At the first few levels of development..
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Jun 11, 2021
- 4 min
Byron Katie – who would you be without your story?
Nobody knows how to "force" yourself to relax, but anyone can learn to question a thought that causes tension ...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Jun 9, 2021
- 5 min
Endurance Coaching. How much can you take?
Life has pressed me down lately. It hit the ground. Hold down. There are times when it is falling apart on all fronts. And so it is now...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- May 16, 2021
- 4 min
Human personal development – ep. 1
Throughout their lives, all people go through various levels of personal development. Some are only able to wade through a few of them...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Mar 30, 2021
- 7 min
Where are you hiding your personal shadow? - ep. 1
Working with many people, I have found that almost every sense of human unhappiness has to do with repressed and orphaned aspects of oneself
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Nov 22, 2020
- 8 min
Fritz Perls – a short biography, quotes
Fritz Perls (1893-1970) is without doubt one of the greatest psychotherapists in history. Raised by an autocratic, strict father...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Nov 14, 2020
- 4 min
Why do we need Life Values? – ep. 3
It is no coincidence that VALUES are one of the first threads that appeared on this blog ...
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