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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
Inmy teenage year was a rebel. I would revolt on any idea taking away from the people’s freedom, or leading nations to close up to each other. I would throw up in front of capitalistic exploitations and despise their imperialism with a black bandanna and a firing Molotov behind my back. A fired-up spirit in an explosive mix of emotional…
It was only recently that new photos of Adele were revealed, depicting her radical body transformation. She had gone from a chubby little shy girl, with a voice of an angel and the unfortunate appearance of an anti-star, to a model-like image of a bitch femme fatale, that her only intention is to scold everyone around her every time she…
“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…