Fighting Extreme Comfort To Stay Productive The extreme comfort we all seek can be our greatest enemy when it comes to productivity. It encourages superficiality and non-urgency. To counterbalance these shortcomings, we need to return to a certain amount of uncertainty and even, in some cases, precariousness. A certain degree of precariousness creates urgency and therefore intensity; through the energy…
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A new social hierarchy has slowly imposed itself without us being able to stop it. It is based on information, as the earth was for medieval societies. Billions of human beings produce information through the use of their various devices such as telephones and laptops. In themselves, they are the new peasants. Their productions are captured by big tech companies…
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We use our energy to produce a work, whether it is an object of art, a service that we render or anything that we can imagine in the professional and personal domains. This energy, this capital, we put it at the disposal of a cause or a project that goes beyond what we are. The energy that animates us can…
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Do not listen to your will, let your energy express itself What we have at birth, it is the universe that gave it to us. It gave us this breath, this momentum, this energy, which is our driving force. We do not know it and think that what we do is only the fruit of our will. We are like…
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What we do each day, we become over time. We are what we do. An isolated action taken in a day is insignificant. What has impact is repetition. If you are not satisfied with your results and ultimately with the life you have, it may be because your habits are harmful. Look at yourself, every day. What do your days…
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Let Your Actions Speak For You There are many ways to be pretentious, the simplest and most accessible to all is to speak and look particular, haughty or disdainful. There is another way to show your values to the world, it is simply to accomplish actions that seem ambitious for some or unattainable for others. Being pretentious by your attitude…
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There is enough of everything in the world to satisfy man’s needs, but not enough to satisfy his greed. Gandhi According to the Robert dictionary, greed is defined as the ardent, immoderate desire for something, the vivacity with which it is satisfied. The important word in this definition is in my opinion “something”, that is to say a tangible and…
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Traditionally, societies are organized around the functions that their members perform. If we look at Maslow’s pyramid, we can see that the hierarchy of needs in the pyramid follows the structure of ancient societies. The peasants who make up the base provide for subsistence needs. The warriors provide security through their mastery of the art of war. The clerics contribute…
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One can do without all books, yet all books are essential to live and to like living. Hafid Aggoune In the age of YouTube and Instagram, the book seems to have lost some of its glory. The text remains of course present, if only in the emails we receive, the titles of videos we still make the effort to read,…
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Reconnecting with the pleasure of enjoying the present moment What drives us to want to be productive all the time is ultimately a lack of discernment about what is truly essential in our lives. Without a sense of accomplishment in the day, we can wander around for hours trying to figure out what would desperately give us that feeling. The…
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