Categorie: Reinier’s blog

All successes come from focused attention and the love for a process. Otherwise, it’s not a success. We call that luck. That’s another topic. In time, we’ll learn to attribute success to a successful process, instead of to a rigid goal.

We have all said it: “I have no choice”. Next, we may realize that we always have a choice, even if you don’t consider it a choice. You do have one. Next, we may realize that we own all of our choices, so we are what and where we are …

In the western world we’ve created a habit of creating ‘value packs’ in fast moving consumer goods. When something sells with high frequency we just make a bigger packaging with the sales-like visuals shouting ‘value pack’. People don’t even check if the bigger packaging is cheaper anymore. We know people …

There’s nothing so simple as not stressing. Simply let go of all stress. It’s so easily said, yet so hard to do. It’s when you’ve found yourself and what’s here to live for, you know what to stress for. The rest is just distraction.

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 …