Is the time you live. Everything else is wasted time. What makes you live is what receives your wholehearted attention. Paying attention is valuing time. You live when you balance focus and de-focus. While focusing as mindful time is easy to understand. De-focusing is...
At the university, we offer for every discipline two chances of demonstrating what you learned, but it might be misleading. In a job interview, you cannot think of a second chance if you fail to impress. In a project submission, you don’t have a second chance to...
Even if you know well where all the information is, nothing is more important than interpretation. Interpreting information to understand a problem, pattern or trend is one of the best skills you learn as a student. Most students rely on solved exercises in their...
One of the greatest cultural revolutions was something so small and simple, nobody even remembers. The space between words. Before the space, all words were together and only scribes were able to understand the written culture passing between generations. But...
The quietest place I know is the mind unless you’re broken by the monster of inner noise. Inner noise is the fear if your thoughts and what they might mean to you. Overcoming your inner noise is possible by developing the ability of inner silence. And the best...
In a recent post, Seth Godin writes about writing and says something interesting “ writing is the symptom of thinking.” The reason for this link between writing and thinking is related to something he says earlier in the post, “ Writing is organized thinking on behalf...
Is the ability to comment on a newspaper article something which makes you a better person because you’re free to express yourself? Here’s what Jaron Lanier says about his experience, “Briefly I was one of the HuffPost’s top bloggers, always on the front...
It’s what you do when your device gets stuck, ventilates too strong or an algorithm runs in unending cycles. There’s nothing wrong with restarting. It doesn’t mean you fail. Often, it’s the best way to keep moving forward. When you persist without...
We think about time in linear terms, neglecting the world’s story unfolds with different narratives. One for each human life, and every other sentient being on this planet. Each narrative has a different rhythm. Perhaps it would be best if we understood time as a...
But it’s not our genes which change. It’s our memes. I agree with psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book on Creativity that “ Creativity is the cultural equivalent of the process of genetic changes that result in biological evolution. (…)...
