The culturally dominant vision of love is based on the idea of a romantic encounter, marked by love at first sight and passion. Yet wherever this vision has prevailed, the marital bond has weakened: countries that have embraced it have seen their divorce rates soar to dizzying levels—over 80% in Spain and over 90% in Portugal, according to some sources.…
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Our memory deceives us: we think we know, yet time and distance shape our recollections, idealizing people, eras, and places. This cognitive bias—natural and almost necessary—sweetens the past to make the present bearable. But when it comes to the past, an uncompromising realism is required: your decisions will become more effective, freed from the grip of emotion in favor of…
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There are many ways to confront our inner demons. Some people manage to overcome them, but end up hurting others in the process. Others, by contrast, face their struggles without becoming a burden to their loved ones or to the people around them. Sometimes we learn how to cope the hard way — by suffering even more — and sometimes…
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When you look closely at the lives of the people most admired—movie stars, athletes, public figures—you start to see that many of them live inside a beautifully decorated cage. The things most of us take for granted—going to the grocery store, walking down the street unnoticed, owning our time—are luxuries they can no longer enjoy. Fame gives them visibility, but…
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Some things are timeless, while others change with every generation. It is therefore pointless, or even dangerous, to trust elders blindly when making all our life choices. The worldview of the generations that came before us evolves, but never as fast as the world we live in. While it is true that human psychology and the laws of physics or…
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It isn’t easy to be yourself, and the workplace is the first place where this reality becomes evident. We are compelled to play a role in order to hold a position, to defend a brand image that is not necessarily our own—the company’s image. This performance is exhausting because it deprives us of the time during which our authenticity could…
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What prevents us from being happy is feeling like victims of our environment and interpreting the ups and downs of everyday life as obstacles to our well-being or our happiness. In itself, this perspective is quite reactive: we respond positively or negatively to what we experience each day. In short, our happiness is largely conditioned by what surrounds us: misadventures…
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Why do people struggle to find meaning in what they do? Could it be because they dedicate themselves to activities that mostly neglect their soul? Sport, the modern stronghold of productivism? Everything we do, from morning to night, must be filtered through the lens of productivity and performance. The few enclaves meant to provide us rest do not, in reality,…
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We are sometimes caught in a whirlwind that pushes us to systematically give priority to others and to things, until we end up forgetting ourselves. When that happens, a critical event often occurs to set things right: the physical or emotional crisis it produces forces us to reconsider our way of living. If you forget yourself, who will think of…
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When you walk in darkness, it is sometimes difficult to believe that the light shining in the distance is real, and that it might turn out to be a bonfire. Yet this is the very essence of faith: to trust despite apparent uncertainty — in other words, to keep a burning flame even when everything around us seems dull and…
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