A muscle needs to be flexed to maintain strength. When we do something reluctantly, we might think “what do I do this for”. The thing is, even if you think it’s for nothing, it never is. Because if you didn’t add any value, as you might think at that time, …
You only posess something when you can actively access it. I’m cleaning out the attic, our tools. Most of it I forgot we have and thus we bought it 3 of 4 times again. And now I throw it away, some stuff unopened or used once. Special glue, light bulbs …
Our voice is creating stories all the time. About ourselves. Others. Stuff. Everything. It just doesn’t want to shut up. It never does. In meditation you train to see the thoughts, and see the silence underneath. The silence underneath is you. You think the voices are you. But if you …
And remember. In life there’s no point in making it to the finish line early. There’s setting one foot before the other. There’s compassion. There’s joy. Why try taking away joy and compassion and exchanging it for frustration (about speed and targets) and pity (about have nots)? It’s not about …
The grotesque statistical logic that with billions of galaxies and billions of stars and planets there must be life out there. But. The intense lack of proof. This is the Fermiparadox. Whatever the solution to it is, to me it feels like entrepreneurship. Most things we entrepreneurial people do is …
Statistics are thrown around like punches in a boxing fight, nowadays in many many discussions. We try to blow each other away with ‘facts’: truths we’ve picked up along the way, in school, on social media, at the coffee machine. Supporting a worldview we’re not ready for to let go …
What’s better? Being joyful, for the sole fact that you’re alive, and from that ever inner state of joy trying to change the world around you for the better? Or. Trying to change the world around you, to become joyful. In Western society, it seems we’ve created a world full …
So often in life, we try to be better people. In friendship, love, colleagueship, cohabitation. But we don’t need to be better people than we are right now. Most of us are already doing a fantastic job. We just need to become much better communicators.
My brother’s wedding yesterday, in corona-time, was very weird. And when I say this, what I’m talking about is: in my head, during the last weeks of preparation. My expectations. My expectations for the wedding were very low. Just because probably I myself would’ve done things so different. In terms …
Football is simple. But playing simple football is the hardest thing there is. -Johan Cruijff Like much of Johan’s wisdom, this probably applies to more than just football.