Discovering the World one Step a Time

What’s this 100 Ways To Get Rejected challenge about? Check this introductory post to find out. I’m starting to get the hang of petitioning: I’ve petitioned yesterday the Ministry of Communications and Informational Society for the implementation of a national Public Transportation API and today I’m going to petition the government at http://gov.ro/en/contact (it was … Continue reading "100 Ways To Get Rejected: Petition For The Rectification Of The 1973 Romanian-US Tax Treaty"

What’s this 100 Ways To Get Rejected challenge about? Check this introductory post to find out. While I was doing some research for a travel app I discovered that there are no cities in Romania that offer a Public Transportation API (PTA). What’s PTA? it’s basically public data that is accessible to anyone on the … Continue reading "100 Ways To Get Rejected: Petition For A National Public Transportation API"

What’s this 100 Ways To Get Rejected challenge about? Check this introductory post to find out. “Again, it’s been a while since I have done something at this challenge” – I’ve written this in my challenge log because the idea of doing this project dates from June and I made little progress until a few … Continue reading "100 Ways To Get Rejected: Applying To Go To Mars"

It’s time for a new personal challenge because it has been more than a month since I have finished the last one (100 Days of Writing) and I’m ready to get out of my comfort zone again and achieve new things and new heights. I have completed two challenges so far, 100 Days of Writing … Continue reading "New Challenge: 100 Ways To Get Rejected"

I’ve been taken away from my little house on the hill and moved to the big city (metaphorically speaking) which I’m calling now “the machine, the factory”, because this is what it actually is: the city is an artificial environment, it’s Ford’s assembly line, it’s a big factory where everything is automated and streamlined, a … Continue reading "Dance Monkey, Dance!"

Referring to the old Persian adage: “This too shall pass” I have to say that my 100 Days of Writing Challenge came to its eventual conclusion after 100 long days and about 30000 written words. This challenge has been quite an adventure that took me to different places, made me think and write about all … Continue reading "100 Days of Writing Challenge: Done!"

Staples Thesis The staples thesis is a theory of export-led growth based on Canadian experience and that explains the development of the Canadian economy as lateral, east-west conception of trade. Scholar Harold Innis believed that Canada developed the way it did due to the nature of its staples economy: raw materials such as cod (in … Continue reading "The Staples Thesis"

Replacement Child Painters Vincent van Gogh and Salvador Dali are examples of “resurrected” children, they both had brothers of the same name who died before their birth. Replacement children are usually over-protected by their parents. The term replacement child is a term invented in 1964 by psychologists Albert C. Cain and Barbara S. Cain and … Continue reading "Replacement Child"

Mentalism Mentalism is an umbrella term used in psychology that refers to branches of study like mental imagery, consciousness and cognition, branches that concentrate on perception and thought processes. For more Daily Concepts check out The Daily Concept App

Ietsism When asked “Do you believe in God?” the typical ietsist responds “No, but there must be something”. The word ‘something’ is iets in Dutch hence the term ietsism. Ietsism is basically the belief in ‘something’, an undetermined transcendent reality, an English related term being agnostic theism, eclecticism, deism and ‘being spiritual but not religious’. … Continue reading "Ietsism"

The Werther Effect Not long ago, the media highly publicized the suicide of fashion designer Kate Spade. Yesterday, Anthony Bourdain took his own life, another act highly publicized by the media. Both individuals were highly successful in what they were doing, were icons in their area of expertise and both were about the same age … Continue reading "The Werther Effect"

Object Relations Theory The object relations theory states states that the way people relate to others and situations in their adult lives is shaped by family experiences during childhood. For example, someone neglected or abused in infancy would expect similar behavior from others, these images of people and events turn into “objects” that are used … Continue reading "Object Relations Theory"

PASS Theory of Intelligence The PASS theory of intelligence states that cognition is organized in three systems and four processes: Planning (responsible for controlling & organizing behavior, constructing strategies and monitoring performance), Attention (maintains arousal levels and alertness), Simultaneous Processing and Successive Processing (encode, transform and retain information). The PASS type of intelligence is tested with … Continue reading "PASS Theory of Intelligence"

So I finally managed to do a marathon. About three weeks earlier before the deadline, 26 of June. The summer is here and it’s getting hotter and hotter, hence my decision to do it as soon as possible to avoid the summer heat. It was an interesting road to this point, back in March when … Continue reading "100 Days to Run a Marathon Challenge: Done!"

Reward Theory of Attraction What this theory basically says is that people tend to like (be attracted) to those whom they associate with rewarding events. In other words, people tend to be attracted to those that make them feel good or to those that remind them of people they enjoy being around. If a relationship … Continue reading "Reward Theory of Attraction"

Axiom of Cumulative Inertia The title of this sociological axiom sounds complicated and off-putting but the axiom itself is easy to explain: it basically says that the more time someone spends in a certain place the less likely the person is to move out from that place in the future. Some reasons for this kind … Continue reading "Axiom of Cumulative Inertia"

Life is like a game of poker and living a good life is all about playing the cards that fate gives you to the best of your ability. It’s not about regrets and having no regrets. What does this means anyway? Doing everything you want? Well, you can’t do anything you want and you can’t … Continue reading "A Life Well Lived"