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Behaviorism (brief reminder-please skip the whole paragraph if you know about the term): the Russian Ivan Pavlov made a famous experiment. First he showed a piece of meat to a group of dogs while (more…)

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A short remembrance from one of my latest sentimental relations, and what I learned from it. All in all, just a resource to think aloud about one of those issues (more…)

I feel terrible. My throat is spiked with thorns, I have this intermittent pain in my articulations, I’m cold, I’m hot. A few minutes ago, I went into the shower before removing my soaked sheets, after a night of what only very generously could be named as “sleep”. I remember a moment after shower, when I (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…)

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…)

Here is a series of sentences used to cope with negative stances, by taking them to a different level. Maybe for some of you they are very basic (all of them are a must in areas like conflict solving, and probably others like sales techniques)… but I think (more…)

That’s the title of the productivity prompt #11 in David Allen’s ‘Ready for Anything‘, which I’m currently enjoying (to say the least: it’s like a productivity earthquake). Allen makes a unique work in (more…)

Today let me sing a little chant in favor of originality and personal difference.

We live tough times for originality. Our globalized world has turned all ranges of human experience into very standard patterns, so all of us are very alike, and most of passions have become collective. Even in those cases when (more…)

I want to share with you a wonderful quote from the Dhammapada, one of the traditional Buddhist texts. I am not looking for converts of any kind here, firstly because Buddhism is not a theocentric but an anthropocentric system of belief, so it does not (more…)

Going to a mall on Saturday is not precisely my idea of fun, but that’s exactly what I did the other day, obeying a call of duty. The experience, in any case, was very worthwhile as a sociological experiment; in our society, where everybody goes to the same places at the same time, (more…)