School is getting interesting again (the last course was less I think). I’m now preparing a research about time, investigating how people spend their time in between the things they do. I hope to get something more about possible ‘doing nothing’ time.
The last few weeks I’ve noticed that I look differently at the trip to [...]

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Next to that I’m not using a clock anymore, I also start forgetting which day and date it is. Not for a day, but for weeks now, I don’t really have an idea of the calendar anymore. I do of the events, but not of the date itself. Another thing is that I don’t have [...]

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Am I that stressed that I feel that all stress course teachers talk too slow?

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Again, in Dutch. I’ll keep on doing that because there are some people who want to hear my ‘native’ voice. But some English subtitles can be found at dotSub (oh, what a horrible website..).
I’ve restarted Inbox Zero – a technique to process your email faster and ’spend less time in your inbox’ – and I’ve [...]

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In my current course, Leadership Development and Communication, we had to work in a group to make a change (yes, we can) inside an organization. After wanting to change the world via different UN bodies we came up with the idea to bring small bags of chips – common in the UK – to the [...]

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Not much activity on my blogg lately. I’ve been ‘doing nothing’, feels very good :)
For my last course – which I finished with a ‘pass with distinction’ grade, the highest possible – I had to write a book review and I reviewed ‘A Geography of Time‘ by Robert Levine. Levine describes very interesting differences between [...]

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This morning I had my first exam here. Well, this morning and day actually. You have 5 hours! to complete your exam here, and I used 4:45 of it :)
I was a bit anxious (a thing we needed to learn for the exam) for this. In the Netherlands I normally have 1 to 2 hours, [...]

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Saturday morning early we – almost all exchange students – left to Stockholm. The night before I’ve been dancing at a party at Kåren (the student union) which made it extra early.. but I was mentally prepared.
At the station I bought a Balder (a sandwich with the same name as my brother) as I [...]

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For my course I have to read some extra literature next to the required ones, literature I choose myself. After some search in old patterns (education, virtual reality) I got the idea to search for time, how we experience time and how that influences our behavior. We already had some of this in the lectures [...]

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Today I had a lecture again where we discussed about stereotypes. Tulips, cheese and drugs-friendly Dutch; family loyal, siesta enjoying and hard-working Mexicans; always on time, environmentally aware and reserved Swedes; and many more.
What I particularly liked was that it came clear that stereotypes are not always negative, in fact stereotypes are mostly positive when [...]

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