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.
In life we set goals. In Western society that’s perceived normal. Moreover, not having goals is living an ambitionless life. Which is perceived as a bad thing. The point of a goal is to get there as fast as possible, or at least faster than the other (otherwise it’s called …
As of the last few weeks I’m deeply inspired bij Sadhguru (Jaggi Vasudev), a wise Indian that consults the UN and (tech) companies as spiritual counsel. He has a lot of content on YouTube. What intrigues me and sticks with me now for the last days is the ‘experience from …
Today’s media landscape is as interesting as sad. What clicks and sells is rarely what’s valuable and constructive. But what clicks and sells often turns into a mainstream opinion. It does. In the Netherlands we have Johan Derksen, a 71yr old soccer media prominent. He says whatever suits him best …
In todays landscape of social attention, there’s no gatekeeper for truth. Rohan Rajiv described this in his blog “Popular opinion over fact” today. Moreover what’s worrying is my observation that there’s no correlation between constructive opinion and attention. What moves us does not always move us forward.
Whether you’re ill, without hope for recovery. Or broke, insecure whether you can keep living in your home. Or homeless, not knowing if you’d ever have a place you can call home. Or imprisoned, knowing you will never get out. Or disabled, knowing you can never walk… Whether you’re stressed, …