We live in a self-made mental cage. But it’s not our fault, it’s by design, as our brain, day after day, tends to deal with the same thoughts because it’s easier and consumes less energy. It starts to become our fault when we are aware of this and, consciously, we…

When we want to achieve something, we usually think in terms of effort, meaning we’re consuming energy to obtain that result. Let’s flip the point of view and let’s consider that pursuing that goal is giving energy: naturally, we can be physically or mentally exhausted doing related activities but we…

Can a quote embrace the meaning of life? Reading this one from Victor Frankl, psychiatrist and philosopher, I’m inclined to answer “maybe yes”. It’s all there… The space Frankl is talking about is what distinguishes us from being animals simply reacting to external inputs. But is not just that. In…

Learning is a continuous process and seems natural that what we know affects how we perceive reality. But perception is just one aspect of how we interact with the outside world because there are other aspects, on top of it: 1) Perception 2) Emotional 3) Behavioural 4) Cognitive What we…

Our brain is heavily biased about having short-term gratifications. And nearly everything around us is pushing more in that direction: when we want something, must be obtained easily and as fast as we can. Multi billionaires businesses are built on this simple concept. So, when this is not happening, we…

When dealing with something new to learn, it’s easy to have a false perception about how is going on. Maybe we read pages in a book, taking notes or underlying interesting passages, or listen to a podcast with someone talking about interesting stuff and we think what just saw or…

Are we good to deal with our daily tasks? Probably just saying yes or no means losing details and context so we need something more. Luckily, there are three words that seem very similar but have different meanings and describe different and equally important aspects in tasks management, so let’s…

I recently started to study to become a Coach and one of the major breakthroughs compared to a mentor style approach is understand the “why” and not the “how” of a situation. Imagine you want to cook a cake and you’re not a good baker. Instead of start thinking about…

“I wish I have more time”, “I don’t have the time to do this” and so on… How many times did we listen to phrases like this in our life? Let’s try to develop a bit and figure out what is intrinsically wrong or, at least, incomplete, by just asking…