The human brain is designed to protect itself and anticipate dangers. This negativity bias prevents us from seeing the world in an optimistic light. We tend to remember only the bad things we have done. This is why it is necessary to make a conscious effort to improve the positive perception we have of ourselves. We Always Regret Our Bad…
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The Holy Grail of material existence is to become anti-fragile, that is to say, to become stronger after each shock like the muscles of the bodybuilder after each training session. Why is it important to become anti-fragile and why is it so hard to become so? Anti-fragility allows us to sail through an uncertain world and take advantage of it.…
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If you look around, people’s salaries mostly follow this rule. Moreover, Musk’s will to solve the problem of the survival of the human species by making man a being with a multiplanetary civilization (via SpaceX and the colonization of Mars) could explain why he was once the richest man on the planet (it was actually thanks to the explosion of…
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This idea is not mine, it comes from a YouTuber who publishes critical videos on current events: link We’ve been raised and educated in cultures that value the question to get to know each other. It’s not like that everywhere. In Japan, it’s very frowned upon to ask questions at every turn. People cultivate a certain modesty and refrain from…
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The culture of cancellation is strong today. We all live with a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads: maybe one day, what we have said or done during our lives will be disowned and criticized by those who follow us. Do we have to live with fear in our stomachs to escape a future popular vindication? The culture of…
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There is a form of racism that jumps out at you and there is a racism that is more subtle. We can commonly speak of macro-racism and micro-racism (for the micro-aggressions that it generates). We can say that modern societies are the place where a war is taking place that does not say its name and of which the soldiers…
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Fear is a natural emotion that we share with animals. Overcoming fear is like making a hero out of yourself for a moment. Why? Because we have gone beyond our conditioning to touch our immaterial, permanent nature, that which is our nobility. Fear being natural, it is more related to our physical dimension. It allows us to preserve our body.…
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Information is a duty for every citizen. A good citizen is one who learns about the harshness of other people’s lives and the injustices that may be suffered by other peoples and even other species. This information effort is necessary to raise awareness but also to take action. It is reasonable to say that the media are not playing the…
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The strength of evil is that it manages to appear invisible to the majority of people Today’s societies are mostly based on dogmas of which we are not aware. Whether you live in Asia, in the northern hemisphere or on an island, it is likely that you live in a society that ignores a reality or that conceals an entire…
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The scarcity of a commodity In a society of affluence, the last thing we have access to is gratitude. How can we explain this paradox? Is it the fact of possessing that makes us hostage to our own possessions? Or is it that the consumerist ideology is incompatible with gratitude because it induces an ungrateful satiety? Gratitude = happiness? Gratitude…
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