"Do you want to fail?" "I want my child to always be first!" "There is no importance in the winning, however why let others be better than you if you are better than them?" "So you do not want to pass the exam? Do you want to be a nobody? " Everyone at some point in...
An exercise I often assign to my students! In their overwhelming majority, they have difficulty understanding, realizing it, starting it. It is difficult to find your essence, to abandon everything that determines you. Most responses: "I am a human", "I am a...
Fear is a primal instinct; it is the reason why man, such a defenseless being, without sharp teeth and nails, without great size or power, has survived and has been prevalent for so many thousands of years. It is, the characteristic that we have to be vigilant at all...
“For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and satisfied, drove on into the night.” (Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy # 4 "So...
A new idea can be spread quickly if someone can explain it and communicate it to others before they have to discover it themselves. But the chief advantage of language is not communication but autogeneration. Language is a trick that allows the mind to question...
It's been years ago! Over 25! Then the term "Bullying" did not exist to describe my experience. It was then a friendly teasing, between children, classmates, peers. At that time these children were not scientists, academics, teachers, professors. It hurt more back...
