How do you integrate new people in a team that already exists? Or should we rather ask: how do we make new people feel "at home" in a house that already has other people (and furniture, pictures, lamps in the right place?).

What do you think and feel when someone tells you that another person is "hard"? And when a person is "soft"? Words are loaded with meanings, stories and history. The same word can mean different things in different contexts and with different intentions. But what is left behind? What trace is left of other uses when the story we want to tell with that word is different?

"We need to save leadership from leadership people," wrote Megan Hustad. Taking it a step further, I believe we urgently need to save the "leaders", especially the people who are not yet tainted by the doctrines of leadership

Our brain gets used (too much and too quickly) to what it already knows, so any necessary change may, at certain times, seem impossible to make, a Herculean effort, like the myth of Sisyphus.

To understand each other better and to make ourselves understood, it is not only important to be able to be objective but also to put the different subjectivities "in conversation", hoping that differences do not cancel each other out and that they build novelty.

What happens to you when someone tells you that you need to "think outside the box"? And when you are told, in the same sequence, that you need to "get out of your comfort zone"? If you are like me, when I hear either of those two expressions, that I get a kind of metaphysical hives, the least will be something close to rolling your eyes. I believe there are good reasons for an adverse reaction.

The need to get answers has left some of us with the presumption of knowing them all, for ourselves and, worse, for others.

Imagine a child, at the age of four, handling some kind of toy. Suddenly, one of the pieces of that toy separates from what was until then a whole. There is no possible arrangement, no "u-h-u" or "super three" to save the situation. What does the child say?

The obsession with the search for ultimate meaning, if everything one does is aligned with a predefined or desired purpose where will the space and time for experimentation reside? And for novelty? And the space for not knowing what the outcome will be?

Isn't the time for questions precious? And the questions themselves? So precious that it should be a serious offence and we should lose points for every time we ask a question without knowing why we are asking it.

Try stopping for once.

By setting the virtual world in opposition to the real world, it is as if the virtual-digital were not part of reality but a kind of simulacrum. Let us not run that risk.

Bureaucracy is like a forced, fabricated nihilism, which pushes us into senseless actions, with no purpose other than the fulfilment of imposed rules through the mindless repetition of certain rituals. The consequence, as we can observe and experience in our daily lives, is the diminishing of the condition that makes us human: our capacity to create and to imagine and to think ourselves.

The role of flexibility and adaptability, rigidity and control in thinking and opinions.

As far as time is concerned, there are no hoots but there are "mouths"; those who leave on time or work "only" for the time stipulated in their contract are still looked down upon.

These days, both in love and obsessive, I look several times at the paintings of one and the photographs of the other and I dream that I am the one there. And, if it were, what would I be feeling?

The difference between a (good) psychotherapist and a ("good") conman lies fundamentally in the intention and integrity of the one and the other. While the interest of the former should be the promotion of the well-being of the other, the intention of the latter is personal gain at the expense of others.

A conversation, to be good and rich, is not just entertainment. It involves effort, dedication and a good dose of self-denial. Montaigne in his "Essays" said that the main reason why a conversation is unsatisfactory is that many people become defensive when their views are questioned. To have a conversation, really, we have to de-centre from ourselves.