“The basic idea of the book is that there is always a dilemma every time you are about to take on something new. Are you gonna give up a huge chunk of your time trying to ‘innovate’ and come up with the next brilliant thing or are you going to continue to cultivate what you already have and progress on…
“It cannot be avoided anymore, at this point there needs to be a genuine answer to the question of how you become what you are. And this leads me to that masterpiece in the art of survival — selfishness . . .” — Nietzsche Wehear about it so often. “Don’t be selfish”, “Think about others”, “ Don’t care only about…
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing. We’ve gathered at the agora several times and discussed our shared regard for divinity, but I hardly know anything about you! Have you always been a midwife? Would you pursue virtue over material wealth? How many siblings do you have? I am ignorant of many things, but I do understand something about…
“I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine. I was dragging this emaciated body that was still such a weight. If only I could have shed it! Though I tried to put it out of my mind, I couldn’t help thinking that there were two of us: my body and I. And I hated that…
Impressions matter. It would be nice to think people take our work at face value and appreciate a job well done. Maybe they look at us and see through the beautiful being we all are. But how often does this really happen? How many times talent is skewed in favor of better communication and how many chances are lost because…
Weall feel it from time to time. That little emptiness of energy. The jolt of stumbling in front of a blank page. The electrified tension between you and your thoughts. As if you are afraid of them. You don’t trust them enough inside you and you definitely don’t trust them to be put out in public. Blocks can happen through…
Losing stuff can be devastating. It forces you to re-evaluate and re-calibrate everything in your life out of a new light. We resemble a Windows PC stuck and overloaded, needed to be restarted. It’s only natural for people to experience some extreme emotions out of it. Anger, frustration and denial can be one of the main emotional mechanisms deployed in…
Wehear about it constantly. Spiritual gurus, phycologists and self-help coaches, continuously preach on getting ahead, reaching the next level and finding your true calls. They talk of a new area and mind shift that will leave your past-self shredded in pieces and will allow your true potential to thrive. But isn’t that a depressive thought as it is optimistic? I…
Thoughts create emotions. It’s a deterministic process. The way you think is the way you feel about things. But many times we fail to realise the inner workings of this. We pinpoint constantly to that inner critic of ours and we think this is all we need to stop to remove the negative feelings. So many articles ruminate in this…
The brain works in frequencies. You may have heard of the various waves that permutate inside it with their distinctive frequency lengths. There are alpha waves when you re relaxed listening to music in an alerted relaxation, beta when more awake doing your daily job and then the even higher divisions of the gamma range. They all denote how different parts of your mind work…