Why should we keep trying to fulfill our dreams by small amounts of – apparently – unsuccessful small actions? You can spend all your energy running as fast as you can, or digging a big hole on the expectation for establishing the foundations of something...
It often happens we ask things which are right in front of us. This morning, I asked my daughter about her lunch box when I was holding it in my hand. My students asked me what should they take for the exam next Friday when all the rules were written in last year’s...
“I’ll sleep on it” might be truer than you think. In this short video, neuroscientist Michael Merzenich explains how sleep cleans irrelevant information during REM, consolidates information (moderate sleep) and chemically rejuvenates the brain. And recently, an...
What happens when you realize what you could have done, you didn’t do? There’s a sense of guilt or anger toward others and things, but there’s only one responsible. You. This thought crossed my mind when I saw my students performance on the last practical class before...
To the transition between a high attention learning (communicative memory) and a cultural change which performs a life-transformative experience (cultural memory), I called the Perennial Act: making what we learn into how we live. But, unless I’m able to...
If conversations contain too many negative words, too many opinions without the full story, and take too much of your time, it will drain your cognitive energy. I call them drain-talk. Avoid them. Escape them. Our lives move forward on positive words, facts, but most...
And curiosity leads to further discoveries about the nature of reality which may produce an impact in our lives. Consider grapes. In a recent article on the NYT, James Gorman synthesis the research of plasmas generated by grapes in a microwave. An fun fact shared by...
Every time we think about how hard learning is, we tend to forget the possibility such learning opens to us. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn,” says the title of John C. Maxwell’s book. This means we never lose but learn. It requires a mindset change detaching...
Yesterday I experienced the power of mentoring in my classes. Before I was sad with the lack of commitment of my students, and I wondered what could I do to engage them. First I recognized my failure. If they weren’t engaged, I wasn’t persuasive enough. But then I...
The time and attention we spend with our devices are at the core of our digital lives. When we eat too much we get fat and sick. Thus, if we eat too much connectivity, we get distracted and numb. If this happened in a generation, what have we forgot that, eventually,...
