Category: How to know yourself
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How to Know Yourself-69: Existence and Meaning
Knowing Ourselves: Meaning, Existence, and Perspectives After completing about 90% of the journey of getting to know ourselves, we reach the themes of existence and selfhood. If you have truly reflected on yourself and made efforts to resolve the issues in your life, you will have reached not existential despair, but existential confidence. Instead of…
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How to Know Yourself-68: The Impact of Relationships on Self-Image
Life’s Balance: How We Approach Problems and Their Impact on Daily Life Life has a strange balance—the problems we face and the connections between them. It’s part of life’s reality. Today, as always, we’ll continue with questions, reflecting on how we approach challenges and how they affect our everyday lives. With this, we’ll wrap up…
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How to Know Yourself-67: Building a Strong Self-Care Philosophy
Questions for Reflection: Health Challenges, Stress, and Self-Care Today’s self-reflection questions: Health issues and psychological challenges are inevitable realities in every human life. How we cope, how our mental state is affected, and the philosophy we adopt toward self-care are shaped by our personal experiences and insights. When you face a major health problem—especially a…
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How to know yourself-66: Stress and Genes
How Do Negative Situations Impact Health, Well-Being, and Productivity? If we look at the scientific side: negative situations trigger the stress response in our bodies, releasing a cocktail of hormones that negatively impact our health and productivity. It can feel like there’s a chaotic circus swirling inside us — stress hormones juggling our emotions and…
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How to Know Yourself-65: Mastering Mind and Stress
Today’s questions revolve around how the mind influences our physical health and emotional state. But let’s be clear — this isn’t about “it’s all in your head” or some heavy academic study. As always, we’re approaching today’s reflections playfully, without aiming for rigid conclusions. How does our mind affect our physical and emotional health? It…
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How to Know Yourself-64: Questions for Deep Reflection
The journey of self-discovery is an experience that helps us understand who we truly are. As we delve deeper into our existence, we encounter many questions that illuminate different aspects of our lives. The more we ask these questions, the more we not only learn new things about ourselves, but we also begin to see…
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How to Know Yourself-63: Understanding Health and Self-Awareness
Health, Self-Awareness, and Modern Misconceptions It’s a common saying: “Health comes first.” We’ve all heard it — a cliché as old as time, and famously voiced by figures like Sakıp Sabancı. But let’s set aside the cliché itself and ask ourselves some real questions about our own relationship with health. Getting to know ourselves is…
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How to Know Yourself-62: Navigating Curiosity and Experience
On the Desire for Novelty, Psychedelics, and the Search for Experience When it comes to exploring new things, do you see yourself as an extremist — someone who pushes all boundaries — or do you have certain limits and preconceptions that guide your actions? Have you ever seriously considered trying psychedelic substances? How did you…
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How to Know Yourself-61: Exploring Your Life Choices
The title gives it away: our question today is, how does the constant search for excitement and change impact your daily life? Does it affect your relationships, preferences, or career? When a new travel destination or possibility comes to mind, what are the first questions you ask yourself? And what do those questions reveal about…
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How to Know Yourself-60: The Impact of Travel and Adventure
What comes to mind when you hear the word “adventure”? For me, it’s an intriguing word because it means something different for everyone. To me, adventure is a journey into the unknown — stepping outside of my comfort zone without expecting any particular outcome. When I hear the word adventure, I feel curiosity and excitement.…
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