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"I'm constantly being told how to drive": unsolicited "help" and lessons
Don't stress out your family, friends or colleagues by explaining to them how to drive. And if you don't feel safe, then drive yourself...
Paulina Nalivaikaitė
Oct 8, 20242 min read


5 Books that Motivate Behavioral Change
On April 7, we celebrated World Health Day with the World Health Organization. 👇 On this occasion, we want to share 5️⃣ books that...
Paulina Nalivaikaitė
Apr 8, 20242 min read


Positive organizational psychology 2.0: from technology to well-being
At coach.lt, we are proponents of positive organizational psychology, the science of organizational well-being. Recently, van Zyl et al....
Paulina Nalivaikaitė
Oct 25, 20232 min read

Caught in algorithm trap? Five ways to escape it
As the study published by MIT Sloan Management Review shows, algorithms of recommender systems not only reflect user preferences but also...
Paulina Nalivaikaitė
Oct 20, 20232 min read


Different company cultures: performance vs. well-being
Cultures focused on performance We’ve been told that you can’t achieve great success without hard work. Some of the tech companies,...
Paulina Nalivaikaitė
Aug 24, 20232 min read


Return to offices: a rational step or a Procrustean bed?
Frequently, we’ve been hearing about companies restricting work from home or even eliminating the option. 🏡❌ Among the most recent...
Paulina Nalivaikaitė
Aug 9, 20232 min read


Psychological safety in Agile teams
Psychological safety is proved to strengthen Agile values and practices. Some of the practitioners even claim that psychological safety...
Paulina Nalivaikaitė
Aug 4, 20231 min read


DOPAMINE framework: reprogram your sense of pleasure
The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of...
Paulina Nalivaikaitė
Aug 3, 20232 min read


Using AI: cheating or just living smarter?
✍️ A copywriter was fired by her client for using AI [1]. She explained that certain AI tools helped her to produce up to 20 articles a...
Paulina Nalivaikaitė
Jul 7, 20231 min read

Rational worry is what will help you not to go crazy 🧠
Like most of us, I have been cheering for the well-being of 🇺🇦 and its people since the first days of the war. Both emotionally and...
Povilas Godliauskas
Mar 2, 20222 min read


Shinrin yoku, or how can forest fear turn into "forest bathing"?
🌳 First and last time at uncle's homestead When I was a pupil at a primary school, I got lost in the forests of Dzūkija. I wanted to...
Povilas Godliauskas
Feb 22, 20224 min read


On self-depreciation at the end of the year
If you're distressed because you didn't meet your annual goals, didn't spend enough time with your significant other/kids, or watched too...
Povilas Godliauskas
Dec 29, 20212 min read


I have everything, but I don't feel happy
"I have everything: a loving family, many friends, an interesting and well-paid job, but I don't feel happy." Sounds familiar? If so, do...
Povilas Godliauskas
Sep 29, 20213 min read


Anxiety is like our internal alarm system
Anxiety is not a disorder; it is our internal alarm system. The purpose of this alarm system is to let us know that we are likely in...
Povilas Godliauskas
Jul 22, 20212 min read


Artificial intelligence in the psychologist's office (video)
I talked to psychologist Rytis Pakrosnis and artificial intelligence student Modestas Jurčius about the differences between intelligence...
Povilas Godliauskas
Dec 22, 20201 min read


Programmers’ career, motivation, and psychological health (video)
More than a year ago, we sat down with Eligijus from “Kodinu” to talk about programming and everything around it: career, motivation,...
Povilas Godliauskas
Oct 13, 20201 min read


Social dilemma or social denial?
For many, "Social Dilemma" (2020) has been an eye-opening experience. For me though the most eye-opening fact was the overblown reaction...
Povilas Godliauskas
Sep 28, 20201 min read


It's NOT limiting to have limiting beliefs
We, coaches, often tend to identify them in our clients' thinking, dismantle their logic, or even subtly challenge their purpose....
Povilas Godliauskas
Sep 12, 20201 min read


Curiosity – your antidote against an unhappy and meaningless life
There was a period in my life when I was seriously considering suicide as a reasonable option. At the time, I was not a "happy" person...
Povilas Godliauskas
Sep 10, 20201 min read


Psychological health of IT specialists: An elephant in the room (audio)
The psychological health of IT specialists (and probably in many other fields) is a kind of elephant 🐘 in the room, which everyone...
Povilas Godliauskas
Jun 22, 20201 min read
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