Victoriya Makrishcheva

12.10.2023

Our biases are subtle guides

Ever considered how your feelings shape your decisions? Sometimes, we realize their impact only after the fact and might regret them later. Our biases are like […]
30.08.2023

Choices or abilities?

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” Prof. Albus Dumbledore
05.08.2023

Architected choices and my milestone

Forgot to share my milestone! In June of this year I made my first presentation at the annual Emotion-Image Therapy (EIT) conference (V Ежегодная конференция: Все […]
21.07.2023

Pumping yourself up or putting yourself down?

Our cognitive biases such as overconfidence or underconfidence bias lead us to decisions that we later regret.   Are you able to find a balance without either […]
02.07.2023

Awareness, vital energy and action

Pete the Cat has woken up grumpy and nothing seems to be going his way. It was his first time to have “the blue cat blues”. […]
01.07.2023

Decision: de = ‘off’ + caedere =’cut’

Today we visited the Planet Word museum. It was an incredible immersion into the history and art of language. I learned that 40% of languages that […]
29.06.2023

Psychosomatic illness as metaphor

What a journey, I just finished a year long training in working with psychosomatic issues using emotion-image therapy (EIT). The training was about how EIT techniques […]
22.06.2023

We all are biased, and biases influence the choices we make

We like to believe that we make decisions rationally and objectively. But in reality, we all are biased, and biases influence the choices we make. Our […]
17.06.2023

There is no choice without a story

Economics is the study of how we make choices. And we cannot make a choice without telling ourselves a story. Stories we tell about ourselves, about […]