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How to restart meditation after a long break
English / Wellbeing

How to restart meditation after a long break

January 11, 2022January 11, 20220

Restarting meditation after a long break can be daunting. You may keep procrastinating, and when you actually try, the mind is restless. You feel frustrated …

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8 things I learned about my morning coffee in Costa Rica
English / Travel / Wellbeing

8 things I learned about my morning coffee in Costa Rica

January 6, 2022January 6, 20220

I was in Costa Rica in 2019 (and a highly recommend it). While making my morning coffee today, I realized how many things I still …

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What would happen if humans disappeared?
English / Wellbeing

What would happen if humans disappeared?

July 23, 2021July 23, 20210

I just watched a TED-ed video inspired by Alan Weisman’s book “The World Without Us”. With vivid animations and powerful narration, the video below answers …

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Read my novel: The Island of the Righteous:
Books

Read my novel: The Island of the Righteous:

April 5, 2021January 11, 20220

A novel about the Greek island that rescued all its Jews in WWII. A story about sacrifice and perseverance. Now available on Amazon. A dying …

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Why I decided to pursue Leadership Coaching
Coaching / English

Why I decided to pursue Leadership Coaching

March 1, 2021January 6, 20220

A few years ago, I had not even heard of Leadership Coaching. I was not even a fan of coaching, wondering who pays money to …

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Expat diaries: After 10 years in 3 countries, here is what I’ve learned about life abroad
English / Migration

Expat diaries: After 10 years in 3 countries, here is what I’ve learned about life abroad

February 28, 2021March 7, 20210

I left Greece for a life abroad in 2011, with a budget of €1,000 in my parent’s credit card. I had secured a job though, …

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Buddhism and Modern Psychology on what makes us happy
English / Wellbeing

Buddhism and Modern Psychology on what makes us happy

February 21, 2021January 11, 20220

This is an adaptation of my final essay for the course Buddhism and Modern Psychology by Princeton University. Skipping a lot of the theory, I …

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8 things to know before starting meditation
English / Wellbeing

8 things to know before starting meditation

January 25, 2021January 11, 20220

Starting meditation can be a challenge, but it gets much better. I started three years ago, when my brain was mush from spending too much …

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WOOP: a simple technique to achieve your goals and build new habits
English / Wellbeing

WOOP: a simple technique to achieve your goals and build new habits

January 25, 2021March 3, 20210

In my Coursera course “The Science of Well-being by Yale”, I came across a very interesting technique called WOOP. I started using it right away …

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2021: New Year’s resolutions and the “fresh start effect”
Wellbeing

2021: New Year’s resolutions and the “fresh start effect”

January 6, 2021January 6, 20220

I always considered September as the month of new beginnings. From school to university to returning from summer holidays back to work, September seemed like …

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Short story: “Here’s to the next time”
Stories / Writing

Short story: “Here’s to the next time”

December 30, 2020December 31, 20200

The table—set every year for two families—now had seven empty seats. Her son and daughter had stayed with their families in Munich and Paris, grounded …

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Did you know the word “spam” comes from this Monty Python sketch?
Culture / English

Did you know the word “spam” comes from this Monty Python sketch?

December 21, 2020January 25, 20210

Spam is a word so integrated in our life that email services have a dedicated folder for it, but where does it come from? Surprisingly …

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez accepts his 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature with this amazing speech
Culture / English / Writing

Gabriel Garcia Marquez accepts his 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature with this amazing speech

December 4, 2020January 26, 20210

On 8th December 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in an all-white suit, received the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his novels and short stories, in which …

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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Culture / English

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

November 9, 2020January 13, 20210

Cathy O’ Neil is a mathematician and data scientist. UC Berkeley-educated with a PhD from Harvard, she left an academic career to join the finance …

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Why you should visit the Cambodian Killing Fields and the Tuol Sleng Prison
Travel

Why you should visit the Cambodian Killing Fields and the Tuol Sleng Prison

December 29, 2019January 13, 20210

There is no way to see the real face of Cambodia overlooking its tortured past imposed by the 1975-1978 Khmer Rouge regime; even if there …

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