During my time as a manager, when committing for a delivery and a deadline, I always added about 20% to the time estimated by my team. Trying to steal some time? Not at all, I was making sure we respect the dead-line because out of my experience, this is how much time we actually needed. …
What is your deepest desire? What do you wish the most at this moment? And what if it came true? What then? I saw a few years ago a TV show about a young boy from a poor village, (in Morocco if I am not mistaking). He was an adolescent (14-16 years of age), he …
I have always wondered why there are so many unhappy people around me. In Romania, being discontent with everything around us is almost like a virtue. We despise everything and everyone. Then I went to Western Europe and I saw that people are different, they are more content with their lives and they are happier. …
I recently read two books and both of them were based on the same idea: people are happy by nature and the main reason for their unhappiness is the mind and its never ending journey into the past or into the future. I came to realize that there is truth in this idea. We are …