Almost 20 years ago, I was desperately saving my pocket money – theoretically destined for my school lunch – in order to afford about 1-2 books per month. After a couple of years I discovered local secondhand bookshops and the local county library. Since I was born and later grew up in a medium town,…… Continue reading The best time for being a reader
Category: Out-of-the-box thinking
How to safely get from point A to point B
Longevity is not an abstract concept, faraway removed from our daily lives. Longevity starts with surviving another second, another day and another year. The decisions we take each second have a great deal of influence on our lifespan. People who have learnt the fine art of living have managed to walk smilingly on its tight…… Continue reading How to safely get from point A to point B
The entrepreneurial spirit and longevity
I live and work in Eastern Europe, a place where the entrepreneurial spirit was silenced for many decades during the Communist regime. The centenarians I see during my medical praxis were employees for most of their lives – they didn’t have a chance to develop a formal enterprise; that would have been frowned upon by…… Continue reading The entrepreneurial spirit and longevity
Work won’t love you back
There are stigmatizing addictions..and then there is a pretty one: workaholism. Because it is a socially-acceptable one, there are very few clinicians who know how to treat it – or even to recognize it in the first place! Workaholism even has a derived niche addiction called “careaholism” and it’s blatant in the medical profession. Basically,…… Continue reading Work won’t love you back