On Living A Better Life, Screwing It Up, And Everything In Between
2020 was the Fear year. 2021 might be the Hunger year. I’m very well aware that this is an awful oversimplification, but still, I think there’s value in exploring a little bit this path. 2020 was the year in which, for weeks, all airplanes on the planet were grounded and the sky was free from … Read more
We live in a time when it’s extremely easy to form and propagate opinions. Just 20-30 years ago, the speed at which we could form and dissipate opinions was an order of magnitude slower than what we have today. And by that I mean that now an opinion can be formed and spread to literally … Read more
If you jump off of a building, you will crash – and, most likely, die. The crashing is the effect, but the underlying cause is not your jump, as you may initially think, but gravity. You are in a context, in a circumstance that will make your crashing unavoidable – IF you don’t prevent it … Read more
The first image that comes to your head when you try to define courage?… Probably something fiery, audacious and bold. Something active. Something spectacular. To a certain extent, this image is very true. Courage is, most of the time, a daring jump in front of danger. But, as with all things in life, there are … Read more
A little over 3 months ago, I started to take cold showers in the morning. This is now part of my routine, although the weather got significantly colder here. A little over 4 months ago, I started to learn to play the guitar. I practice now 3 times a day, for about 60 to 90 … Read more
I started 2020 training to run in a 24 hours race. It was the first one ever organized in Valencia and it seemed like a good opportunity – no travel, no extra costs, no extra time to get there and back home. Alas, the pandemic changed this, so the race was postponed indefinitely. I didn’t … Read more
Goal setting is nice. And it works like going to gym: the more you do it, the better you get at it. If you practice goal setting long enough, at some point you’ll be in a place where it’s getting comfortable. Like a second nature: whatever you put your mind to, you make it happen. … Read more
There is a certain point in life where you will understand that some sort of failure, at some level, is unavoidable. Whether we’re talking about losing someone dear (it will happen at some point, because we’re all just tourists in this world, anyway) or about losing some thing we’re attached to, like a house or … Read more