Social Hacking

I am hopefully back blogging again, and I am changing more things. When I started this blog I was hoping to show you the psychological views that I had of the world. However, sadly I don't have the time anymore to write those post which I called lessons. In what I called season two I had a little more relaxed approach with shorter posts and less detail. In this, "third season", I am going to (hopefully) write more posts, but they are going to be very different from the previous posts. I will talk more about day-to-day things I encounter and share my thoughts at that moment. I hope you'll like it!

I am using this post as a little start up. I need to get used to writing again(!).
As you probably already know I am a computer scientist student at The Royal Institute of Technology and I spend most of my day in front of a computer. This semester I have, as usual, taking to many courses and I have way to much work to do. However, I do get some time over to think and analyze. I have started to read a couple of psychological blogs that I will comment on in upcoming posts. I know that some people reading this have studied psychology and I have gotten some interesting comments from these people. My views are at times different from what these people have learned and I have had some interesting discussion about this fact. My own opinion is that psychology is just based on human theories, you can't really be wrong or right. If I had the exact same ideas and thoughts as everyone else, why would anyone like to read what I am writing?

I really like to hear your opinions on what I am writing, I promise not to bite.

As I said I have read some interesting blogs discussing psychology. The other day I read that taking a walk every now and then can improve your memory by 20%. Reading on it showed that taking a walk in a nice and calm environment will relax us and when we return to our tasks we will be able to focus better. The interesting part was the psychological effect of the environment. If you took a walk in a urban area your memory did not improve as much as when taking a walk in the forest. Even when just looking at a picture of a calm landscape the mind was able to relax more then when looking at a picture of a city. This last part I think was the most interesting. The mind does a lot of work even though we don't think about it. Just by seeing a picture of a city we will imagine being in a city. Think about how the pictures on the wall in your home look. Do you live in a psychologically relaxed environment?