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Eating As Experience

I’m not the best eater in the world, but I do admit there is a lot to it. There is the flavor, of course, but also (more…)

Mindfulness: a case study from Stephen King

Stephen King’s ‘The Langoliers’ has a very powerful opening scene: a commercial pilot is at the flight deck, making the final arrangements with his assistant before taking off, when his boss comes in to give him some terrible news: (more…)

The Master Key System

‘The Master Key System’ is a book published by Charles F. Haanel in 1916. It is a sort of manual for the application of the Law of Attraction, and a very interesting read for those who, after reading Rhonda Byrne’s ‘The Secret‘, (more…)

Emotion spotting – how to do it

The really extro–verted ways of our human society oblige most of us, its members, to be kind of self-taught about how to deal with our inner worlds. There are increasing and very brave attempts of acknowledgement of such worlds, but for most of the people emotions, feelings and ‘all that stuff’ are regarded as a world of ‘ghosts’, and ghosts are (more…)

Naive is the way to go

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…)

The throne and the perpetual commentator

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The black area round our vision

Life is amazing when you think of it. Take what you’re really seeing right now, for instance. Try to abandon frontal vision for a minute and embrace the whole picture. You’ll have noticed that, above what you’re seeing, starts a black area, the place where (more…)

Admiration is healthy (and powerful, too…)

When I was in my twenties, I used to go to the movies every weekend with a friend of mine. It would be fair to say that he was the one who taught me the real art of watching films, the art of really considering them and learning from them.

In spite of that, he wasn’t precisely a person of the enthusiastic type, (more…)

Reach for the moon, but start with your (two) shoelaces

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In ‘Getting Things Done‘ David Allen affirms that the size of projects does not matter (for those who are not familiar with the GTD methodology, Allen defines “project” as any desired result that requires more than one simple action-i.e. a “pack” of actions with a defined purpose), and in terms of logic, he is right. Everything in his book is rigorously logic. But it makes me think of certain (more…)