o ganho de produtividade em ser capaz de não fazer nada

Tradução e actualização do artigo em inglês "The productive experience of being able to do nothing" publicado a 2 de Maio. Devido a algumas conversas que surgiram num workshop de GTD recente, lembrei-me de uma experiência psicológica muito interessante que foi realizada nos EUA há alguns anos. Achei interessante partilha-la aqui também e desenvolver um …

just follow your heart… wait, don’t!

How many times have you heard this? Seems like it's the quick-way-out of any difficult decision that has to be made: "just follow your heart". I'm all for it! There's nothing better than following your heart as a guidance to the most difficult moments in your life, to the paths you have to take, things …

on motivation, inspiration, et al…

"People say motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bath, and that's why it's recommended daily" This has got to be on my favourite quotes ever on the topic of motivation. Some people get the idea that some of us have some kind of intrinsic motivational power, or that it's genetic, or whatever. Its partially true …

the productive experience of being able to do nothing

Due to some conversations that popped up while giving a GTD workshop this past saturday, I recalled and shared a very interesting psychological experiment that was done in the US some time ago. I thought it would be good to share it here with you too. To make a long story short, this experiment consisted in …

Empowering your brain by breaking and rewiring it :)

Lately, GTD and some of my own personal interests (like NLP) got me to study a little bit more about this awesome thing that is our human brain. As nowadays there's so much talk about imagination, creativity, "thinking outside the box", etc, I wrote this post to share a few thoughts on the topic. One …