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Thoughts about changing, life, and whatever comes to mind.

Category: Blog

  • choose courage over comfort

    This is such a powerful quote from Brenè Brown, an author that I personally admire for the work she has done.

    Aside from being a successful TED speaker, Brenè also studied one of the shadies places in human emotions: Shame and vulnerability.

    I often refer to her teachings because vulnerability is so powerful and useful to grow that I always think it should be taught in college.

    Yesterday I listened to the Tim Ferriss podcast and she was there presenting her new book, Rising Strong.
    Listening again to her reminded me of the value of vulnerability and the price you pay for that.
    It reminded me of this powerful guideline

    “Choose courage over comfort”

  • august 2015 recap

    So, how did my august went?

    First of all, it was my first and only month where I constantly updated this blog. Small task, I know, but it worked out.

    Bad news is that I skipped yesterday. Totally forgot about it.
    This makes me think that it’s best if I do it first thing in the morning instead that during the day, otherwise I always find myself trying to find the time.

    One of longest the posts I wrote talks about change and how can we really to to change

    another is about feelings that should not be hidden.

    Checking back the post is also a great way to realize what’s been on my mind during this month.
    For example I discussed a couple of times about the news (both the bad news and the tv news).

    Or I talk about the value of your time (concluding it’s you can “just do it“) and then read a wonderful post from Jason Fried about time vs attention which kinda changed my whole perspective.

    All in all, a beautiful month.

  • old errors

    I find it easy to blame it on myself when things go wrong and I’m the main culprit.

    I guess many people do this way.
    What fascinates me is that my mind goes round and round and start thinking about things like “can we really learn from our errors?”

    Having written 2 days ago about this same topic I feel this is a bit of a failure, but I can’t stop thinking that yes, we can learn from failure, but learning is hard and takes time.

  • 18 steps to mastery

    1. try
    2. fail
    3. try again
    4. fail
    5. learn
    6. study
    7. fail
    8. study hard
    9. first good result
    10. fail
    11. realize you don’t understand it
    12. study harder
    13. try again
    14. second good result
    15. fail again
    16. try
    17. take some time off
    18. restart

  • is there an actionable part in the news?

    We all watch tv news, to know what’s happening, right?
    Or we read newspapers, web news, whatever.

    More often than not these things are really interesting, they’re nice and make you want to read more, that’s their format.
    The thing I ask to myself is this: Are those actionable informations?

    I wondered why are we so interested in receiving news, and personally I can identify myself with the need to be update with what’s happening.
    To be in the loop.

    Much like the FOMO (fear of missing out) that Facebook somewhat created, this need for being updated is similar.
    I find this need visceral, somewhat coming from an unknown part of me.

    Thinking about it I realize that much of the information I receive isn’t actionable. The only action the information can give us if we are in danger, other than that even the political information is just useful for having an opinion, although you could also conclude that it would be way better to just consider the claim vs the reality after 5 years of a politician.

    Well, of course this information could be actionable if we plan to do a parade about rights or equality, but I find these things even less common nowadays.

    So, the question I’m left with is this:
    Is it worth listening/reading the news? I’m puzzled.