Ideas, Reflections and Speculations
The Accusers - a contemporary portrait
The offence has gone from acute to chronic. It is no longer a reaction to something that hurts us or affects our reputation. We are reactive to everything that is dissonant to us; everything that is different simply backfires.
Political correctness
Political correctness is a theory that supports the idea that it is perfectly possible to take a piece of shit from the clean side. Well, I don't think it's possible. If it's shit, it's shit.
The importance of the useless in the fight against stupidity
In the world of idiotic work, efficiency is not rewarded. Apparently more value is placed on things like ownership of other people's time and the power that comes with it. Therefore, a smart worker who has a minimal understanding of saving effort will not do his best. He will do just enough to give the idea that he is doing something useful with time that, after all, is not his own.
Stop using time as a measure for work and give importance to what is useless
He is very hard-working" or "he has a great capacity for work"; "he is the first to get in and the last to leave". What are the first ideas that come to your mind when you read these sentences? What do you feel?
Learning to learn is the best thing that can be "taught".
Imagine you are in a room with a child. The room has a staircase. He doesn't know how to walk yet, he is learning. You hear a noise and your attention and gaze wander briefly away from the child. When you return to the room, you see that the child has managed to climb up to the fourth step of the stairs. What does he do?
Continuing to search for a new definition of "work"
Today, and apparently already in the 40s and 50s of the last century, this is how it was seen or, at least, foreseen: leisure moments only seem to have space and time to take place during work interruptions. Work and leisure, like water and oil, do not mix. Apparently for the same reasons: they are composed of "incompatible" substances.
"Calling a spade a spade: the case of business jargon
I confess to being so saturated with corporate bullshit, especially that which is said in English, that every time I hear that someone needs help to develop their soft skills what I hear is that it will probably be someone who resorts to rudeness, lack of respect and lack of common sense as means to achieve their results.
Artificial and Natural Intelligence
It is important not to forget that everything artificial, including intelligence, is the result of the inventive and creative capacities of our species.
The conversations of lovers and teams
The most successful couples and teams will be those who are able, on an ongoing and constant basis, to talk about the relationship and its maintenance/evolution, who continue to create and explore possibilities and who can coordinate actions effectively.
The positive effects of negative thinking
Facilitating the process of learning and change can often involve accepting difficulties, creating coping strategies and developing qualities and skills that come from negative thinking.
Dismantling the Obvious & Caring for Intuition
Knowledge and awareness do not invalidate or diminish intuition; perhaps they enhance it. But this will imply ceasing to evoke intuition as a way of camouflaging laziness.
Silence! You will hear
Silence in the relationship with another gains another configuration, another complexity and, therefore, another richness. Listening is not only hearing and deciphering what one receives but, precisely because one deciphers, because one interprets, it implies simultaneously listening to oneself. Listening is therefore a two-way phenomenon with two meanings: it implies listening to the other and "listening to listening".
Intersections and differences between coaching and psychology: interview with João Sevilhano for Mais-Psi
"Psychologists, psychotherapists or psychiatrists are for people with problems. When I consult a coach I don't have problems but challenges".
Lack of thinking
In this world in which we live, excited and entertained by technological and scientific advances, which constantly pushes us in the directions of productivity, efficiency and effectiveness, happiness at all costs, permanent balance, forced creativity, etc., the space to think seems to be lacking.
On listening
Someone with full hearing capabilities, in truth, cannot say that he is not able to listen. He can only say that he was not interested.
Modern obsessions, classic ambitions: a critique of the role of technology and the internet
We will be at a stage where we have moved from "docile bodies", as Foucault called them, to "docile minds", where control is done through the nurturing of expectations and illusions of happiness, well-being, pleasure and solutions to life's big questions.