“…here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads.” (Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave”)...
Yesterday I proposed something ridiculous. A neologism around the idea that we shouldn’t call meme to what is, in reality, a Biphufo: big-picture-with-huge-font. What surprised me was the reaction of my kids to this – apparently – ridiculous idea....
People use memes for something, unaware of what memes are. Is cultural evolution in danger? I was searching for information about emojis to understand if I could consider them memes. According to psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, memes are “units of...
Even if we become more mindful and begin paying greater attention, how do we know we’re paying attention to what matters? And how do we decide what matters most? We are the cosmos self-awareness and added another level of complexity to the biosphere with the...
Awareness is what best protects you against having your behavior being hacked. This is the lesson I took from the Netflix documentary on the Cambridge Analytica case. It challenges democracy at its roots. How can you give power to the people if the behavior of a few...
And do nothing. What does it mean? Stopping? Yes, but what does “stopping” means? Zero velocity? Ok, but do we mean physically? Cognitively? Spiritually? Today, it means going on vacation. Time for enjoying time and let the mind wander, relax and meet...
Do you ever think about studying yourself? If we could learn fast and well, learning would be our real superpower, but it depends on how much we know about ourselves. Knowing yourself does not mean thinking only about you and disregard everything else. Quite the...
We arrive home and want to stop and rest. Resonates? But, today, I learned something different. A way of stopping after work is doing a daily review. The reason for the daily review was this post. Stopping means doing nothing, literally, and let your mind wander. My...
How can you succeed where everyone fails? Be the one who fails the most. Failing is a driver of life experience. The more you experience, if the mindset is right, you’ll grow to become successful. However, it seems it takes two other things. Risk and time. Those...
Yesterday, for the first time in more than 250 daily posts, I broke the chain and didn’t write. Have I failed? Yes and no. I decided to write every day something I learned, which is the reason for this blog on Daily Learning. But yesterday I did a different...
