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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…)

Leaving surprise notes to yourself is a wonderful way to increase your awareness and learn or remind yourself things without effort.

Like most of the best techniques, it is very simple; take a small piece of paper and write on one side the thing you want to be reminded of. Make sure you write it as a question. This is important because (more…)

I’ll admit it: when it comes to videogames, I’m of the classic type. There’s nothing I like better than 90′s real time strategy and first person shooters. Most of the games that have come along later, in my view, have consisted only in (more…)

First, a few quotes about the comfort area: (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…)

As it was mentioned in previous adventures (for example here or here), I love walking. I love walking even in quite a hostile an environment as a big city. I find it necessary, not only for the body, but as mental hygiene. And by walking (more…)

During his interview with Solomon Shang, the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung tells a very revealing story about two patients of him.

The man was of the extroverted type, and the girl was introverted, “so, naturally, (more…)

I wonder if we ever notice how different children are from an adults. At least, when it comes down to space, it is easier to notice the difference: children’s body proportions, with their big heads and shorter limbs, are different to ours, so it is easy to conclude that their experience of space in a different from ours (let alone their different sleep and energy consumption patterns… it is the age of discovery).

But such difference is more subtle when it comes down to time. Time for a child (more…)

The other day I was having a walk in the street when I started to experience very disgusting feelings. During the previous couple of days or so, I had been able to calm down those negative feelings by (more…)

Humor was once defined as “distance that approaches”. It is one of the best existing relieves for our tortured and overwhelmed left brain (it is (more…)