The more I learn about the Korean culture, the more my heart breaks. 5-year old kids who are sent to English classes, single ladies who would do anything to get married (including plastic surgery, studying their butt off to get into a good college, etc.), the guys who max out their credit cards to...
It’s only Tuesday but it already feels like Friday. I can’t believe that I will be in another country a week from now. What a crazy thought. I’ve been to Europe before but it’s a different story when it’s a country you spent your childhood in. I don’t know. We will have to see…...
It looks like I’ve got some explanation to do regarding my previous post on the concept of flow. I understand it holds many different meanings but the one I specifically was referring to is the one that which a person becomes completely absorbed into the task at hand that he/she loses the track of...
One of the most interesting and intriguing courses I took in graduate school is the one about “flow”. I have written about this concept before but nowadays I just can’t seem to stop thinking about its importance and prevalence. I’m at a point in life where I’m constantly trying to identify the meaning of...
I have an anxiety disorder. Call it Mysophobia, Bacteriophobia, Germaphobia, or OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), I’m just freaked out about getting myself getting into contact with bacteria or getting infected with a virus. What’s funny is that I didn’t know that this was a disorder until recently. I thought everyone was fearful of bacteria. I...
Lately, I’ve started realize that I’m actually more creative than I had thought. For those unfamiliar with my background, I went through some intensive training in art when I was in Korea and everybody thought I would end up doing something artsy. Interestingly enough, I ended up quitting art during my first semester studying...
My last post sparked an interesting conversation over the definition of fake in regards to people. An argument was that rather than being called fake, the behavior should be considered an attempt at being “politically correct”. While I tried hard to stand firm in my belief, I couldn’t help but accept the fact that...
Found a very intersting article in the Wall Street Journal regarding language as a cultural influencer: Does Language Influence Culture? As a bilingual with a background in Psychology, I found Dr. Boroditsky’s research particularly intriguing. It’s rare that I finish an entire article of this length but I figure it’s because I’m the ideal...
Ever wonder why we think the way we do? Researchers try their best to minimize the effect of bias in experiential and attitudinal studies, yet it’s impossible to remove them completely, well because… we are who we are- human. Bias is not a variable, or rather an extraneous factor (that which affects study results...
