“Kummerspeck” is one of those German words that is quite difficult or even impossible to translate. According to the Deutsche Welle, it refers to the extra weight you might put on after a bout of emotional eating.
So one might say something like, “My sister has been worrying a great deal about her new job. This has caused her to eat more than she normally does, which has lead her to put on a lot of weight.”
Now that’s quite a mouthful, isn’t it?
Gestures can be a valuable tool to help you add power to your leadership presence, according to an article in the Business Journals.
So why not learn the four ways that gestures can power up your leadership presence (link to: bizjournals.com)?
This car is expensive. It is more expensive … the other car. It is the … car I’ve ever possessed.
Can you fill in the answers? How good is your English grammar? Do the Bayerischer Rundfunk’s little test to find out.
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.” Robert Louis Stevenson
Concepts of time differ across cultures. Southern Europeans, for example, organise their time (and lives) in an entirely different way to Americans, Germans and the Swiss. They’re not particularly interested in timetables and punctuality.
This article (link to: businessinsider.com) explains how different cultures understand time.
