Category: Weekly Postings

Adversity, no matter what it is, doesn’t have the power to hit us as bad as we think it will.  As students we overestimate the power of a bad grade in a test. When...

If you squeeze an orange, you get orange juice.  Why?  Simply because that is what it has inside. When something happens to you and is anger what comes out, that is what you have...

Dogs are some of the most cheerful creatures that live among us. Every time I come back from wherever I went, my dogs are happy and excited and celebrate my arrival with joy, delighted...

“Go back inside yourself and look: if you do not see yourself as beautiful, then do as a sculptor does with a statue he wants to make beautiful: he chisels away one part, and...

Along thousands of years, human’s brain has evolved developing a new structure called prefrontal cortex.  This area does lots of things, but the most important function is to be an experience simulator. Human beings have...

One of the things that has happened as we have become a more industrialized society is that we have actually become even more disconnected from our planet and the world around us. We build...

We live in a culture of comparison.  We feel good about our job until we perceive someone progressing faster than us.  We feel good about our finances until we see someone exposing their opulent...

Our brain is made up of billions of neurons that communicate with each other by releasing chemicals called neurotransmitters (e.g., dopamine and glutamate), into the space between them known as synapses. It is a...

When we give a gift to someone, we should not expect absolutely nothing in return. Expecting a return, transforms the noble act of gifting into an exchange, corroding the splendor of the giving act....

Inspired by “That Little Voice In Your Head“ (Mo Gawdat) If we look at the survival function of our brain, there are three main sub-systems.  Although they have a positive intent of keeping us...