Category: Featured Articles
Swiss Cheese Thinking: From Disaster Metaphor to Strategic Advantage
We use the Swiss Cheese Model to explain how failures happen—but what if we flipped it? This article explores how Swiss Cheese Thinking can transform traditional strategic planning into a resilience-based, investor-grade framework that absorbs shocks instead of collapsing under them.
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What Is Narrative Transportation Theory—and Why Should Regional Tourism Care?
Inside every old town lives a new story—emerging not instead of, but because of what came before.
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The Ancient Enemy: How a 3,000-Year-Old Story Shapes Today’s Middle East
There’s a moment that keeps coming back to me from October 2023. Netanyahu, standing before Israeli troops, invoking a three-thousand-year-old biblical commandment: “Remember what Amalek has done to you.” Most heard heated rhetoric. But for those listening carefully—it was something far more specific.
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When Faith Becomes a Cage: The Hidden World of Spiritual Coercion
How spiritual manipulation hides within respectable Christian communities—from campus ministries to prosperity churches. An exploration of psychological entrapment and the true cost of leaving.
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The Gamified Journey: How Behavioral Design is Transforming the Psychology of Travel
Travel isn’t just about going somewhere anymore—it’s about becoming someone. The quiet revolution of gamification is reshaping how we experience destinations, and smart marketers are already playing several moves ahead.
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The Psychology of Luxury: How High-End Brands Engineer Desire Before You Know It
The tea is steeping when you enter the room. Not just any tea—your tea, prepared precisely as you...
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Breaking Family Cycles: How to Heal and Thrive After Estrangement
Estrangement can feel like a rupture, severing not just the bond with a parent but rippling into...
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Estrangement Over Time: Navigating Setbacks, Growth, and Changing Dynamics
Estrangement is not a single event—it’s a journey. It begins with a fracture in the relationship,...
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From Caligula’s Horse to Milei’s Cloned Dogs: When World Leaders Go Weird
When power warps reality: from appointing horses to Senate seats to séances with cloned mastiffs, the bizarrely consistent psychology of leadership continues to manifest across millennia.
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Reclaiming Joy and Purpose: How to Thrive After Estrangement
Estrangement leaves a void—not just in the absence of a parent, but in the ways it challenges your...
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Boundaries and Self-Care: Rebuilding Your Life After Estrangement
Estrangement from a parent often feels like walking a tightrope between grief and growth, anger...
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The $24 Airport Sandwich: Why Travel Makes Us Spend Irrationally
Discover why rational people abandon financial discipline at airports, where liminal spaces and neurochemistry conspire to create the perfect spending storm.
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