A obsessão pela excelência está a tornar-nos menos excelentes. Ao perseguirmos incessantemente a perfeição, perdemos de vista o que realmente importa: a capacidade de aprender, crescer e contribuir de forma significativa para o mundo. E se, em vez de tentarmos ser perfeitos, nos focássemos em ser 'suficientemente bons'?

Numa sociedade obcecada com a produtividade, será que sabemos realmente parar? As férias tornaram-se numa maratona de actividades e partilhas nas redes sociais. Parece que temos de provar ao mundo (e a nós próprios) que estamos a aproveitar o nosso tempo livre. Mas estaremos realmente a viver, ou apenas a desempenhar uma versão hiperactiva do descanso? E se, em vez de procurarmos novas fórmulas para viver, questionássemos a própria necessidade de fórmulas?

Some distractions are meaningful and productive, just as certain objects hardly deserve the attention we give them. Perhaps you’re envy-scrolling on Instagram when you hear a strange chirp overhead and find yourself marveling at the sight of a violet-backed starling. In that instant, a negative attention transforms into a beautiful distraction.

A intuição e as capacidades de dedução e de inferência são falíveis. Por outro lado, são precisamente estas características que nos permitem avançar, criar e imaginar cenários futuros que, ora nos assustam, ora nos inspiram e entusiasmam.

Quanto vale uma conversa? E quanto custa? As expressões “as boas conversas não têm preço” ou “as conversas têm valor incalculável” podem bem enquadrar-se no conceito de profundidadezinha do filósofo Daniel Dennett. Aprofundemos.

A thesis, an antithesis and a synthesis on the reasons why ghosting in a professional context exists and is apparently on the rise.

Self-help is always an invitation to submit one's own thinking, critical thinking, to the thinking and experience of another. Critical thinking is the exercise of questioning one's own thinking. Only after that should you even think about directing your attention to someone else's thinking.

To return or not to return? Control or freedom? Rigidity or flexibility? Blind traditionalism or naive progressivism? A reflection on what limits the quality of the questions with which we entertain ourselves.

It is convenient to close or at least half-closed our eyes to the problems that exist around us and our own contribution. Sometimes it is good not to see reality clearly, lest it make us depressed or give us even more work.

When we feel lonely, bored, angry, frustrated, worried, we distract ourselves with the shiny screen that is more accessible, that shows us often irrelevant things. We distract ourselves with distractions. Let us distract ourselves better.

I realize and recognize that there is a before and after I joined Way Beyond. What was left behind I remember as a climb to a mountain peak. The hard trial of life in which, in order to become great, in our eyes, we so often feel small. What came after is like a dip in the ocean.

Machines have already freed us from many heavy jobs and make our lives easier in so many others. How much better is our life? What have we done with this (supposed) evolution? We have created new problems instead of solving other important and avoidable problems. What problems are we neglecting as the myopia caused by our dazzle worsens?

Kindly give me back my difficulties so that I can freely choose my challenges.

Let's solve the "workload" problem; more conversations and fewer meetings; let's take an organic and not a mechanical/mathematical perspective of growth; let's educate middle management; let's define and defend causes instead of purposes; let's cut the crap.

Everyone suddenly has something special to say about important matters, and what there is to say must be said in a hurry to get there first. Haste is the enemy of listening, observation, introspection and reflection, which are the ingredients of thoughtfulness, wisdom and consideration. Good conversations are also made without haste.

In our human networks one person can help another to overcome their adversities by seeing themselves differently.

The sold are the ones unable to see the falseness of their absolute and indelible truths. They are the ones blinded by the need, which has become belief, to always be right. These are the ones who accumulate truths without ever surrendering to the possibility of being wrong.

About this world of ours today, which is evidently not taking the best course, because of us above all, it is easy to argue that both common sense and consensus are lacking. Nevertheless, neither concept will lead us to better paths. Both the cause and the solution may lie in common sense.