People are not lazy. They only get stunned when confronted with opposing powers that block their creative force. Last week I found myself unmotivated and dull, strolling pointlessly over Netflix series and social media, while important work was waiting right across from me, staring back critically as I was wasting my time away. “We all need a break,” I said…
The Power Of Priming
Imagine that you wake up in the morning preparing for your work. You have your usual breakfast while reading the newspaper and drive up to the office that you get to do your daily job-JiuJitsu. As you set about your day, you notice a sort of aversion from your occupations that you can’t really put your hand on. You don’t…
Artificial Intelligence And The New Emerging Economy
Imagine that you wake up under a vibrating bed that lulls sweet songs to ease you swiftly into your day, and you find your robot assistant with a full disc of ready-made croissant and orange juice to fix the detected hypoglycemia in your blood. As you take your breakfast, voice assistance notifies you of the last received emails in order…
The Key Negotiation Mistakes You Need To Avoid
The alarm starts banging off like crazy and it’s already 5:00 o’clock. Your partner could not manage to make it to the meeting with your key product manufacturers, and now you need to make it there instead. Alas, this ain’t the only hurdle of the day. Once you finish the meeting, you need to travel to the other side of…
Why Compliments Make Us Uncomfortable
As the woman smiled, she tapped me on the shoulder and said: “That was a superb job you did. You handled it quite well”. But I was set back by the statement. “Well no, I had lots of help from others, you know…” I said while scratching the back of my head. “Everybody did their part and… things worked out…
Dealing With The ‘What If’ Pandemic
In the short story ‘Exhalation’ by Ted Chiang, a new Prism technology makes its appearance that allows reality to diverge through the use of quantum mechanics. From the moment the device is activated, time deviates and the present is split into 2 parallel versions that coexist at a different time-space continuum. The 2 realities progress separately as if it was the…
A Word For Marlon Brando
Many people assume that progressing in a craft or a hobby is about the thing you are doing per se. But that is nothing but a mere distraction. A means to an end that depicts how further ahead you can get as a person. It wouldn’t be hard to imagine that whatever level you reach in one thing you could…
What Nike Got Right to Become a Giant
By the time Nike came up with the ‘Just do it’ slogan, they managed to expand their share of the pie all over North America, achieving a 43% cut. The shoe dynasty dominated the scene throughout the 70s and 80s and overcame many hurdles before it establishes itself as one of the top players in the field. As of now,…
The Dark Side of Perfectionism
“When Tiger Woods plays, the market rises.” people used to say. There was a period that one single golf player could actually impact the world to such a degree, that he could drive the stocks up in the market just with his performance. The effect was especially evident at the start of the week, right after the Sunday’s games that…
Why We Root For The Underdog
There is a certain tendency people share but goes unnoticeable most of the time. People root for the underdogs. As much as we may like winners and high achievers and no matter how passionately we avoid loss and being associated with it at any cost, it so happens that from time to time we find ourselves rooting for the little…