Zerebria

I don’t remember the exact details of the joke (maybe that’s why I’m so bad at telling jokes: details are always the most juicy part). It was something about a group of people who had all their jokes arranged in (more…)

It was a period of my life when I was suffering a lot. I had difficult personal issues at the office where I was working, a set of new and nasty human situations, to face which I lacked the least resources. All the time I spent there was a torture, (more…)

My faithful (or stoical ) Zerebria readers already have a notice of my love story with Konrad Lorenz’s Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins, documented here and here. The book, despite its age, is full of wow and aha moments, and, while reading it, (more…)

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Today it’s my pleasure to open the collaborations chapter in this blog with a very special guest blogger; Raul Ojeda, from Alien Ghost, will sound familiar to some of you as a regular presence in the comments section. But if you have not visited his blog yet, do yourself a favor and make sure you enjoy his refined comments and his very acute, sometimes ironic view of life at www.alienghost.com.

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Thank you Nacho for the honor and the opportunity to be here in this amazing blog! The topic I’d like to talk about is a comparison between the way people and cars operate (or behave).

Loop Mode

In modern cars a computer controls the engine, transmission, suspension, brakes, etc. It does that by (more…)

A person in the state of flow is something beautiful to see, like a burst of clean laughter, like a children playing on the ground. (more…)

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I have a few cases of depression going on in my world (I myself practice depression now and then, but just as a humble amateur ), and there is an important improvement opportunity that I have noticed, common to all of them. (more…)

Something that really grabbed my attention in Stephen Covey’s ‘The seven habits of the highly effective people’ was the concept of overcompensation. He does not dedicate more than one or two pages to it, but it is such a inspiring fact (more…)

Tomorrow is the autumnal equinox: the moment in which, after the bright Summer, day and night equal their forces. From then on, days will become shorter, and darkness will gain ground.

There is a change of patterns in nature and we should change ours, too. (more…)

Children are like pure water before it gets stained by our ‘civilized’ procedures (in fact, it is more than a metaphor: it seems the water percentage in a child’s body is higher than the regular adult 60-70%). So, even though nowadays they usually lose their innocence really soon (they better do), it is still possible to (more…)

Don’t you even think for a moment that I have given up my practice of writing down the successes of the day. In fact, it gets (more…)