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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…)

Imagine one day you decide that you will consecrate Mondays to do the perfect vacuum cleaner session. Formulated that way, the chances are (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…)

It’ll never get enough said: David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology to get organized is based upon principles that are simple, but not evident (for more about GTD, check out my GTD First Aid Kit series, or the ‘GTD’ tag at the right column).

One of those principles is dividing lists into (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…)

I don’t know, maybe it comes with it age, but I have recently realized a huge misconception in my way of facing things, life, you name it. In my way of being an “adult” and “sensible” person. (more…)

One of the main problems you can encounter in teamwork is what is usually called “highly emotional (more…)

The issue rose in a recent conversation with a close relative of mine: “philosophy is not necessary for life”, said the relative, in a somewhat disdainful tone.

It is important to notice that, in the context of this conversation, the word “philosophy” was indeed used (more…)

One of the parts of the Getting Things Done methodology that I found most difficult to apply at first was writing down “purposes and principles” for each project (more…)

Bud Hennekes recently posted about his intention to eliminate curses from his vocabulary, for which he has announced that he will hold a “30 day trial” and invites other people to join him.

I didn’t exactly get if such trial intends (more…)