It’s surprising the difference between waking up in a city or in the country. Most of us know that in theory, but the experience is still overwhelming. In the city, there’s this background noise similar to waves. Occasionally, you can distinguish an...
People can rarely meet but we experience their connection when we see them together. And people can meet every single day but live in deep isolation from each other. Recently, I witnessed the later and felt sad. Being together can be an opportunity for reciprocal...
Beating procrastination is not easy, but possible and ridiculously simple. We are creatures of habits and if we want to beat procrastination, creating a habit is a powerful and effective choice. The problem is the reply I hear more often – ” I don’t have...
It seems a trivial suggestion, but it’s much more than that. It’s a calling. A calling to simplicity and live in the essential. A calling to improve who you are instead of how much you have. And if anyone considers being happy trivial, he or she has a real...
You’re tired but almost finished. Little is missing til you’re done. It’s the last bit. But even the last bit requires effort. And the probability of giving up increases exponentially. Why, if it’s the last bit? Awareness. The last bit without...
When was the last time you rest? I mean, really rest? What does it take to make a stand and rest? Creativity and willingness to lose. The only thing we miss without resting is life itself. The world moves fast and we feel the need to keep up, but what if I told...
Cultural revolutions are all about connecting people. But that’s only one step of the way. There are other connecting steps. Connecting with the environment sets the boundaries through which memes flow. Connecting ideas with life move us toward a brighter...
Silence is not the absence of sound but noise. Visual silence is not the absence of light, but sight. Slowness is not wasting time but embracing it. Stopping is not getting stuck, but pausing toward greater awareness. People live fast-paced narratives. However,...
In recent years, we began valuing sleeping more. I found by experience how the lack of sleep led me to anxiety attacks and the loss of the ability to speak with someone else for more than two minutes. I was in a meeting today, and people were suggesting we should...
I expected a lot of things, but not the importance of imagination on interpretation. Today was the final exam of the discipline I lecture on Heat Transfer. There are no recipes, even with methods which we can deliberately practice. In any heat transfer problem,...
