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Montaigne compared conversation to (more…)

There are times when one goes “Ah, if only I could recover my hope (more…)

Covey’s management classic ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People‘ is not, for me at least, a sustainable productivity system (its priority codes, for instance, have been ran over by the stampede of modern life), but it does include incredibly quality food for thought for the ‘highest levels’ of your life; those moments when (more…)

I think the ‘Show, don’t tell’ hint, usually offered to writers, is also of application when trying to influence other people. (more…)

Great food for thought can be found in Everyone Can Win, by Helena Cornelius and Shoshana Faire. A very interesting issue the book covers is the underlying psychology behind visceral disliking, particularly (more…)

“Come on, let me see your smiling face. The new ping pong classes start today at deck C (more…)

I got in contact with the issue of codependency merely by chance, as I was looking for better ways to interact with a person with a problem of addiction. I had a feeling that I was not going anywhere and (more…)

Everybody is granted some kind of superpower or other. Mine is the Blinding Light. On certain occasions, I emit (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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If you have been round here for a while, you’ll know that individual consciousness, and its relations with the mob, is a recurrent issue in this blog. I consider it key to our current situation as a community. Well, the other day I had an insight about this and my first thought, of course, (more…)