My friend asks me something in a private chat. And because this personal message is so serious – it’s a question about one of my messages (a joke) in a ‘group’-chat -, I feel personally involved. However, I completely disengage from this friend not understanding me. And my first emotional …
I’ve received this year. Because why make my own life ‘better’, whilst there are countless others who don’t even have basic human needs. Like water. charity: water is on a mission on solving that. And from now on I’m part of their journey. Today, unlike every day, I’m confronting you …
I don’t share this often enough. We live in this world that has innumerable impulses. And I’m not talking about the color of flowers – things we experience as long as human history. I’m talking about the impulses we have every day from brands, products, and services around us. All …
People have ideas all the time. Creativity is part of being an inventive human. It’s part of evolution. But most people don’t act on the ideas, except for talking about how great they are. Many people want to be entrepreneurs, few are. Why? Because entrepreneurs, unlike others, practice (often unknowingly) the 10 …
There’s this status quo I notice that most people are really bad at planning. When we grow up, our parents plan everything for us. Slowly (high school and beyond) that moves towards our own planning process and structure, but we’re just left to the luck we have in the guidance …
Something else that fascinates me about history is how we treat history in the present. Different people (sometimes groups of people) use a specific version of history in their benefit. Or mistakenly interpret things wrong, without knowing. Clearly we’ve arrived in an era where people appreciate terms as ‘history’ and …
It’s Christmas 1914. It’s the first world war, and Germany and France/UK oppose each other in trenches at a gruesome front. I’d like to quote a letter from Henry Williamson, a 19 year-old private from the British forces. Dear Mother, I am writing from the trenches. It is 11 o’clock …
Studying history is eternally interesting if you seize the opportunity to look at it as a given. No good. No bad. There’s just the events that have occured. No judgement. It teaches us about how we came to where we are now. To me personally it teaches me gratitude about …
A man walks into a store where, amongst many stuff, they also sell bicycle tires. He wants to return/swap his tire because it’s broken within a week after he bought it. The man walks up to the desk and demands a new tire. However, the lady can’t help him because …
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, …