About this blog
This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
Read more about me or about my work at elminewijnia.eu
Tag Archives: selfreflecting
Mindfulness and ACT (5)
Since 6 weeks I participate in a 9 week self-help course on how to live ‘the full life’. The course has been offered by the relatively new Psychology department at Twente University (based in my home town; where I got my degree from a different faculty) and they want to test the effectiveness of this [...]
Being introvert (3)
Today I came across an article about introverts in the workplace. The article says something about the preference in general for characteristics that come with extraverts, but that organizations should become more aware of the skills introverts can bring to work: analytic, observant, not judging immediately. Some other characteristics: introverts need more ’self-time’ to recover [...]
Taking what I do serious (2)
This week I’ve come to realize that a lot of the time I don’t take my work seriously. In the sense that I’m always playing down what I do. I have a hard time being convinced that what I do has value.
This realization hit me in the face and could easily knock me out if [...]
Why did I stop? (14)