There’s two kinds of people. People who mostly solve problems when they occur and people who mostly solve problems before they occur. Some problems are better to solve beforehand, some better when they occur. Ownership is claiming your role in both problems; now and future. Freedom is solving the right …
Without deadlines, things are meaningless. If finishing something means anything to you, put a deadline to it.
The problem with personal growth isn’t knowing that you don’t know. It’s thinking that you already know.
When I called at 8AM and wanted to make a reservation for a meeting room that day, the hotel reception lady, Romy, unfortunately, had to tell me “the sales department isn’t open yet”. They would open at 9. I spoke to someone from the hotel, but she couldn’t help me …
It’s probably our deepest rooted motivation for anything. Fear. Thus, in marketing, it works. And so does our deepest rooted pleasure: Sex. Our lizard brain is continuously seeking pleasure, preventing pain. Our lizard brain takes care of everything we do automatically. And we often try to sell to it as …
With a level playing field of 24 hours a day, what change are you going to make?
I came across a social media post from The Good Quote, where they quoted 40’ers who gave advice to when they were in their twenties. It made me think about what I would say to my ten or fifteen years younger self. I’m only a 30’er, just fresh, with my …
We humans are super bad at behaving rationally. For example, we are super bad at calculating the risk of things. Around 2,5% of people is scared to death when it’s about flying, whereas the risk that your death is on plane is actually 0,0004%. So far less than the risk …
Most things in the world are here only by the grace of that they are here together. No humans without other humans. Dogs need dogs. Trees need bees. We’re here not only because of each other, moreover, we are here for each other. We’re here to create each other. This …
“You sit here”, says an orange gaffa-tape cross with written on it the number ‘9’, on the desk in my workplace. Of course, the cross doesn’t literally speak. But it does tell me that this is my place for now. Because we have a social-distancing policy in the office. And …