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Stability Without Openness or Progress Is Slow Decay Made to Look Respectable.
After spending time in places like Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and to some extent Brazil, I came to a hard conclusion: closed and protected systems do not only damage the economy. They also damage everyday life, public expectations, business culture, and even the way people think about what is normal. This is not about saying that…
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Suffering, Progress and Understanding
Human systems tend to develop only after some form of suffering—so humanity, it seems, still has much to endure. But it is not suffering itself that leads to growth; it is the experience and understanding gained through it that open the will toward development. In fact, one could avoid suffering and still achieve great progress—but not without…
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Honesty Leads to Goodness
Honesty is needed to achieve something truly good. Otherwise, how can you admit to yourself that you were wrong or made mistakes in order to grow? Improvement always involves growth. No matter how much something may dazzle you, if its essence is dishonest—prone to lying and self-deception—then its potential for good is low, and its…
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Overcome
As human beings, the way we used to know ourselves is just a temporary state. There’s so much dirt and incompetency hidden inside most of us; the key to human nature is to overcome ourselves, to find and develop a better version. It all starts from newborns. You have to constantly learn and fight for…
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The brain is flexible
Find a time to do that, your daily portion, when you do it. Develop a ritual or a habit. Discover or invent a joy in it. Any potential can be mastered then. The brain is flexible.