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Right now companies are dying to show off their interest for the entire world, their interest in the people etc etc.

Before the pandemic many of them didn’t care, many of the people we know didn’t pay taxes. Now we say that nurses are heroes but their work is (in italy) funded by taxes.

I don’t believe this change is gonna stay still after the pandemic. I believe this is a result of fear. Fear of losing money (for biz), fear of dying (for people).

After this they’ll all come back to normal.
Our hope is that some of them will keep this line, some companies might really change and choose do leave a dent in this big world, because they recognize it’s the world they live in.

Today, while listening to the podcast of Tim Ferris with Gabor Mate I discovered on beautiful thing on addiction that I find extremely fascinating.

Addiction exists to pose a temporary end to a bigger problem. When you’re addicted and you feed the addiction you’ll get some benefits (relax, good mood, energy, whatever).
That is what you’re after and that’s why it’s hard to stop being addicted.

But the problem _is not_ addiction. The source of the problem is something else, addiction is our solution to end part of the problem itself, to suffer less.
Because if we had the results of addiction in the first place (relax, good mood, etc) we wouldn’t need the addiction to begin with.

I never saw addiction as a consequence of a bigger problem, and seeing it like this makes me wonder: of the many addictions (of any kind. Addiction doesn’t equate drug) I’ve had, what were the problems I was trying to hide/solve?

One of the mightiest trick our mind can do to us is to let us believe that we should be seen.

That our actions, our work, our effort, should be openly recognized by anyone.

This need of recognition can rot any goal, because we will fail. Even if we don’t want, even if we’re exceptional there will come a time when we will fail.

It’s not about us, it’s about life itself: We can’t win every time.

When that will happen our need to be seen will be crushed, it’ll be impossible and we will feel trapped by a condition where we can’t succeed.

But the lie is that we are the ones that built that trap.
Fooled into thinking that “To be seen” was much more important than to do our best, than to leave something beautiful behind, we feel for it and started following something ephemeral that is based upon “other people”.

To be seen can be accomplished only thanks to others, not thanks to us, while we could do so much more by focusing on what _we_ can do today-

It’s been a month since I became a father and now more than ever I do understand that some things cannot be translated into words.

The child changes your life, she’ll put you through a lot of troubles but at the same time she’ll be a concentration of love. Your love.

A kind of dedication, of love that you never knew existed before. That’s why a child makes a difference, she makes all the difference in the world.

It’s easy to get tricked into thinking that a higher role in a company means you’ll do less work, you’ll simply pass information from up to the lower levels and back on.

But that would mean that you don’t add value to the process. And that’s where we can find the key differences between top performers and under performers. The former add value to the process, add information, dig deeper.

The latter simply pass the information, maybe they lose information without refining for the better. They don’t take responsibility, they simply want to hand over the information like a hot plate you can’t touch.

What’s your contribution to your job? When you’re simply passing information, what’s your way to add more value to the sum of the things?