The silence builds up and a fully packed concerto hall is waiting in that silence. People are scared to breathe, waiting for the conductor to move and the first notes of the concert to start. That conductor determines what happens. Who, what, when. Creating the tone in the music. The …
We’ve welcomed our second daughter on this planet last week. And when I spoke to my sister on the phone after a couple of hours, I remembered myself arguing with my parents when I was younger about something I remembered in that conversation. Which is that more kids all have …
Every fear is a projection of the past on the future. Memory and imagination. So if you just ignore the past, what are you afraid of?
When we act, what, how, why… Most of our successes are dumb luck. It’s not about timing when to. What makes people experienced, is mainly lessons learnt on when not to pay attention and when not to act. Luck may or may not give us a fortune. Experience moves us …
Is it to let the teacher know that the student has internalized the matter? That the student studied for the test? To make sure if the student gets an accreditation, but in the end proves to be a dumbass, that the institution can prove they didn’t give the accreditation away …
A 2016 Seth Godin-post exactly described my feelings about testing in the current education system. I memorize it until this day. Education is about learning. Learning is about falling and standing up again. That process is about internalizing. The education system is changing very slowly. And that’s why we ourselves …
My dear younger friend. There’s no need to look up to people, because we’re all equal as humans. No one is the more rightful owner of something, more entitled to something or more worth. Ask yourself what you think about something. What you’re up to. Think for yourself about what …
The quality of your life depends on how much you can concentrate and what you concentrate on. Yogi saying
What we identify with defines our horizon. If we identify with our family, our horizon is this street. If we identify with our community, or horizon is our local surroundings. If we identify with our neighborhood, our horizon is our city. If we identify with our football club, our horizon …
Individual bonuses praise us for what we do. Regardless of how we’ve done it. They cause individualism, selfishness, shortcuts, and at best a good short-term result. They might focus on the wrong KPI. Team bonuses praise us for who we are. For how we as individuals made the team perform. …