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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…)

• The acting is crap because “come on, they are dancing, you can’t expect them to act too” (more…)

Here’s one of the best descriptions of the storytelling process that I’ve ever read:

Imagination is more important than experience and inspiration. I don’t want to give a faithful report on real-life incidents, I want to (more…)

I have blogged several times about the virtues of admiration, and the greatness of being a polymath, so I thought it would be nice to show that I practice what I preach by introducing here some of my heroes. (more…)

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I am happy to report that Zerebria received the other day the Cherry On Top Award from Raul Ojeda, AKA Alien Ghost. I guess this award must always come as a surprise for the receiver (it is part of its charm), and I feel quite overwhelmed, mostly considering that my blog is still not one year old.

Now, to receive the Cherry On Top Award one must fulfill a series of rules: (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…)

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…)

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…)

Here’s a story about the difference between efficiency and effectiveness. A few summers ago, I was spending some days with my family at the beach. One morning, I went to the balcony and found certain relative of mine, not very intelligent, who was (more…)

There is nothing more loathsome in films than those stories where everything intends to be “clockwork-like”, and characters are just puppets to make the story happen. (more…)