by Pablo German | Dec 19, 2020 | personal development
There is no doubt that in today’s society we encourage goals, success, and achievement while sometimes overlooking the development of an inner life. Perhaps the recent tragedy of Zappos founder Tony Hsieh is an example of that. It is almost as if what we are feeling...
by Pablo German | Dec 10, 2020 | Emotions
Once I heard the story of a former Nazi officer that, years after the war had finished, was in his deathbed and asked for a Jew. When the Jew turned up, the dying Nazi officer asked for forgiveness. The Jew couldn’t find it in his heart to forgive, even when the other...
by Pablo German | Dec 2, 2020 | Emotions, personal development
More than 10 years ago I was looking to move to a new place. I found one I liked, offered to move in, and went to sign the contract. Before signing the contract, the property manager said the landlord wanted to get paid in cash. I thought that was very strange, asked...
by Pablo German | Nov 26, 2020 | personal development
Many years ago, a friend said that one of his biggest challenges was accepting who he was. This was the first time I was exposed to the problem of self-acceptance. Although I have suffered my fair share of failures, have made lots of mistakes, and have not...
by Pablo German | Nov 13, 2020 | personal development
What is more important reason or intuition? Magnus Carlsen is one of the best chess players of all time. Surely, chess is a rational game so he probably relies more on his ability to reason and calculate moves than on his intuition. You would be forgiven if you...
