Dissatisfaction as a Motivation to Change
Feeling like you should be doing different things, or getting different results can be a good force for change.
Learning Pains
And it is so good.
Trees of the past and future
At every moment of my life I’m at the intersection of two trees, one made of all of the events occurred and the decisions I made which brought me to today and the other made of all the possible decisions I will make in the future. At every moment of my life I can consider…
You Can’t Get Always What You Want
How you react to adversities defines you character. You have to confront yourself first with your reaction to the environment and that is where your real self shows up. Demonstrating the capability but also the will to adapt makes you resilient. Becoming angry and refusing to find trade-offs generates unsatisfactory feelings and put you down.…
I did a monthly retrospective
And it was good
Adding Review and Revision to your Creative Process
In your deliberate practice of daily creative habit building you cannot skip the review and revision phases. Exercising your kick 10’000 times without feedback and correction would have a pale comparison against a complete feedback loop. When you write daily only the check boxes, that’s what you risk. A stale routine of boring activities carried…
Systematic, iterative, incremental experimentation as a self-growth strategy
A healthy attitude towards experimenting, evaluating, and reflecting on the outcome of our trials is an effective push to self-growth.
From Goals To Systems
We should change our personal development systems from pursuing goals to more reflective behaviors about developing our potential.
Create Opportunities
You don’t necessarily need big occasions, big names, or extremely ambitious contexts, you can create opportunities every time with everybody, everywhere.
Living in an Insensitive World
How to live with the knowledge of the evils of the world without being corrupted by them?