For the second consecutive year, the date takes place in the midst of a pandemic caused by COVID-19.
After the end of the year parties, people begin to return to their routines and get used to them. However, January has a very particular day, The third Monday in January is called Blue Monday, which in Spanish translates as ‘sad Monday’, and which year after year generates the appearance of messages of encouragement to spend these 24 depressing hours.
For the second consecutive year, the date takes place in the midst of a pandemic caused by COVID-19. In 2005, a Motivational psychologist at Cardiff University, Cliff Arnal, together with a travel agency, discovered through a mathematical process that the third Monday of each year would be the saddest of the 365 days.
The formula [C+(D-d)]TI / MNa is responsible for giving the result to that statement. C It refers to climatic factor, that without a doubt these days of January are the coldest. The D will determine the debts that were acquired at Christmas time, while d is the money entered in January.
Refering to T, It refers to weather what happened since the wise men arrived. The I is the last attempt to give up some bad habit. Once obtained the result from this equation, the same You must divide by M, which will be the level of motivation, by Na, which is the need to do something.. The approximate result, then, is the third Monday in January.
Arnall, who worked at an adjunct center at Cardiff University in Wales and now teaches courses on happiness and personal well-being, has come under fire from some colleagues.
The date on the calendar has served to social networks are flooded with messages of encouragement and good intentions to counteract what is supposed to be the saddest day of the year.
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