The period between Thanksgiving and Christmas could be called reflection season, if you’re into reflecting. I love reflecting; since it’s looking back ánd forward, whilst standing still. It’s super interesting to see what learnings you’ve gone through in a short period of time, and how you can internalize them moving …
If you’re good at social media, it doesn’t mean you are doing anything right. Let’s make things better, by making better things. Social media is a symptom, not a tactic. If you want to be talked about, you better create a story worth sharing.
Everyone is a unique mix of other people’s thoughts. Our job in life is to choose wisely, which to pursue and which to leave alone.
Some is almost always better than none. Some feedback moved the train forward today for one of my students. However I shared just a glimpse of my thoughts. Some peace is better than none. Some agreement is better than none. Some viewers of our content are better than none. Although …
I love to quote Mark Twain and say “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” In 2019 on November the 23rd, a year ago, I’ve had the honour of presenting my first book Collectie van Rampen. I’ll never forget that day. The Twain quote …
Post mortum, a lot of great Michael Jackson work came in the world. Every now and then I scroll through my concept blogs and discover a diamond in the rough. Our best work is the work that sees the world with the potential to change someone. There’s the risk of …
There’s no such thing as winning or losing in a relationship. Finite games have a known number of players, a clear objective and set rules. Football. Infinite games have known and unknown players, the rules are changing and the goal is to stay in the game as long as possible, …
It’s strange that once we see we can never unsee. What we can do is pay attention and see if it changes something. And we can even, stop paying attention.
We can do busywork for the rest of our lives. We often know what’s really important to us, but we procrastinate. Why? We, humans, are extraordinary people. We seek pleasure and avoid pain. We álso have a unique feature to imagine the future. So we might discover that something is …
I come across this situation every now and then. When someone has an idea for my company or project. I deny the idea without providing very much context, in the greater vision it’s a bad idea. This may sound acceptable, but actually it isn’t productive. And this situation I notice …