I am a strong believer in the power of communities or groups. I’ve seen many times what great things can happen when people get together. Nowadays we don’t even need to meet, or know each other. As a member in a lot of online communities I saw beautiful collaborations almost as if those people where … [Read more…]
When I teach improvisation some people fear that they will be seen as not-serious. Usually this is the fear of the most serious (or stiff) participants. They are afraid that if they embrace the improv principles they will look too childish or reckless. But what happens is that they think about those abilities pushed too … [Read more…]
Yes, we live in a world in which time seems to never be enough. You work a lot, everything is urgent and important and when you finally have some free time you want to use it for yourself. I get it. But here’s the catch: investing in learning actually saves you time. If you put … [Read more…]
Learning is a natural process because this is how our brain works: he acquires information based on everything we do and changes himself (literally). Personal development doesn’t feel like a natural process because it requires both unlearning and learning. Most of the times it requires us to change the connections our brain already formed, to find a new … [Read more…]
We can’t predict. No one can. Not with deep anthropological or historical knowledge, economical, political, social or any other type of knowledge whatsoever. Not using advanced statistics (correlations, regressions and other fancy words & techniques) or complicated mathematics. Nassim Taleb makes a very good point in his bestselling book “Black Swan“: if you can predict something, then it’s … [Read more…]