In the train, yesterday, before getting out, the man in the same cabin all of sudden spoke to me: “the world is small.” After a few seconds he continued, “all our lives we are looking for someone or something else, while we haven’t found ourselves. How can we look for someone else when we don’t [...]

If you get lost here, I understand. If not, say hi.
Isn’t it strange that sometimes what we perceive as weaknesses are actually strenghts? Or what may be apparantly cool is not so cool in the end? For instance, the Marlboro cowboy may be a though looking guy, he still has a far superior chance of [...]

I’m currently reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness. Apart from the fact that he is an interesting fellow, part mathematical trader, part literary essayist, his book is based on a compelling premise: life is much more random than we think it is. When we look back at success in time, we can rationalize how [...]

While browsing a Financial Newspaper today, I read an interview with a former lawyer and member of supervisory boards. Being 68 years old, he mentioned that in his early days, the work of a lawyer dealt a lot with reflection. Lawyers were expected to make careful and articulate decisions. Nowadays many decisions by lawyers are [...]

While talking to Polle de Maagt today, one sentence sprang up: “If you know who you are it is easy to adapt, because you know your boundaries and so the environment provides no threat.”
When you are lost in identity, you try to hang on to whatever you have and whatever is foreign is a threat. [...]

While reading Rebecca’s blog, Modite, last week, I found her say this:
“I studied design in college and found that given the chance to design anything at all in the whole wide world, the canvas will remain blank. Told to design something with a right angle, or without connecting any lines, or including three circles and [...]

It dawned on me the last few days how important “focus” is. If we really want to accomplish something we got to be focused on it. While rereading this last line, its simplicity almost appears not worthy of mentioning. Many have repeated this sentence, but how many have realized what it means?
I’ve been thinking about [...]

Real progress hurts. It’s that simple. It’s a hurdle we have to take. By changing our environment we oftentimes escape taking the hurdle. Stay where you are and make that change, go through that development. We should push like athletes and feel a pinch of pain. Not too much, not too little. Like a friend [...]

It was Krishna janmastami yesterday. This is Krishna’s birthday and is celebrated by Hindus all over the world. I traveled to friends where we had a nice program with some poetic reading, singing and a great dinner.
On the way home I turned on the radio for a little bit and overheard a commercial that got [...]

It depends on what it means to you.
Yesterday I was at a corporate beachevent. Before some of the activities started, one of the speakers announced this was not a networking event thereby insinuating that networking is a bad thing. I think some of the speaker’s feelings were due to Dutch culture where sticking your head [...]