Suzan R. Hofstede Publications

  Procrastination is a habit that we all experience time to time. We all procrastinate some tasks, homework, projects or even our dreams. Since we started to work from home, we may not want to work or study. We cannot focus on our tasks because there are lots of things that we can be distracted. Also we all had an intense routine, and nowadays we realize that we are tired. The reasons why we procrastinate are simple. We may think that the task is not urgent. It might be urgent, but we may be tired for that work. Sometimes we make unachievable routines, and when we cannot finish our tasks we can be stressed. Some people try to be perfect. When they try to do all the hard things, they cannot finish both the hard and the easy ones. All in all there can be lots of reasons, but we can avoid procrastinating with some simple solutions. There are some solutions to avoid procrastinating. First of all you should write all the tasks that you are going to do. After writing, you should think ab...

  We all use the internet, but sometimes too much different information can mislead us. We can get lost while reading the news or watching videos. Especially, if we encounter controversial information. Nowadays, the internet is used much more due to coronavirus so we have to learn which information is true and which is wrong. Some of the information may not be correct. Wrong information can mislead people. On the internet everybody says that 2020 is getting worse day by day. Some of them say that aliens will come and destroy the Earth before 2020 finishes. Another group of people say that the global warming is getting much worse than we expected. At the same time a different group of people say that the Sun is in a dangerous position, so we will enter in an Ice Age again. Be realistic. How can global warming and the Ice Age can occur at the same time? It is certain that at least one of these theories is wrong. So we must look for the true information. Most of the people share beaut...

  In the beginning we all thought that “pandemic” is really a bad situation. Actually, there are also lots of lessons that we have learned during this period. We have not recognized that it has also some positive effects. In my opinion, it has some positive effects on humanity. First of all, we learned that our health and other intangible things are the most important parts of our lives. One may think that while we cannot travel, everything will be absolutely boring. But that is so not true! Having fun with our family is the most precious thing that we learned during this time.    Actually I am really happy for spending time with my mother. It is high time to spend our precious time with our family. Secondly, we have learned that we do not really have to go outside to do our tasks. By doing our tasks at home we really use our time much more efficiently. We do not spend our time on the road and as we do not use our cars, the air pollution decreases a lot. Both the humanity...

  The dissatisfaction of people has many effects on humanity, such as it makes people’s lives better, helps to improve their lives and teaches that the most important thing is to improve themselves. We all want some changes and luxury in our lives. Do we need all those luxuries or are they not that important as they seem? How does the dissatisfaction of people affect our lives? Do we really need the feeling of dissatisfaction to improve ourselves? Firstly, dissatisfaction of people make their lives better. I strongly believe that this dissatisfaction and the perfectionism make our lives much better. All of us want to have the biggest house, the coolest car, the most expensive clothes, the perfect phone and the most excellent life although we really do not need them to have a perfect life. Secondly, humanity has been developing since the ancient times due to their dissatisfaction. If we have not got the feeling of dissatisfaction, we would not be able to improve this fast. The techn...

  What would happen if there were robots who could think, create and improve things just like us? Would they always served us without payments? After a while there would be a chaos because both robots wouldn’t like to serve us for free and people might not want to take robots’ responsibilities. For instance, what will happen if robots do something good? If a robot writes a book and earns money, who will get the money? The robot, the person who has built the robot or the owner of the robot? One might think that a robot earning money would be perfect, but robots may also commit a crime. Then this can change one’s mind. When we talk about positive things, earning money, we all accept, but what about bad things? What will happen if robots steal something? Who will be responsible for it? We do not want to be punished because of something we have not done. For example “self-driving cars”. They are cars without drivers which means the cars are driven by artificial intelligence. If a car l...