Category Archives: People

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Why I can’t be creative while feeling sad (And why you should care about it)

When we are happy, we think clearly, or at least we feel so. We may not see some bad things “as they are”, but we do see good things, and in general, we feel “normal” and feel life “fluid”. On the meantime, as everything is “normal”, thoughts are clean and you feel good, creativity comes [...]

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5 Rules to become a decent liar

A nice person is that who respects, who’s tolerant and accepts the existence of other people. Are you any different from that? If you are, in any way, a little intolerant, or sometimes you wish others weren’t around you (like that creepy fellow on the bus, that annoying neighbor of yours or a dumb politician [...]

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Why do you feel bad?

People can feel bad on a daily basis. You may be a lucky person a don’t feel bad in days… Or an unlucky person and feel bad every day, every hour. The thing is that we all usually feel bad in a daily basis. IT’s not that we get depressed, sad or alike, but something [...]

Straight Perfection

What is “perfectionism” to you?

If I told you to related that word to a personality, to a person… That person would probably be one that finds mistakes in everything: “The floor is too white”, “the paintings are not straight”, “the text has a mistake”. That sort of things are what you probably associate to a perfectionist. I’m not going [...]

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Why science-fiction, fantasy and toys are so important to a geek person

When I think of the word geek, I’m never sure of what it is. I’m not sure if a geek prefers Star Wars to Star Treck, or the other way around, or if that choice is irrelevant to the fact he or she enjoys a science-fiction work. And about science-fiction, I’ve never seen it as [...]

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Why do children like video-games?

That’s a question I never thought about, until some days ago, when I was reading through some web forums’ posts, and some random worried parent asked what was the deal with his son playing video-games so much. I was curious about the question, so I kept digging, and found tons of other parents complaining about [...]

Two stormtroopers (from Star Wars) in a hangman kind-of game.

Inside-jokes and knowledge create communities

I talked in a past article on how inside-jokes work, and how they help building relationships, as individuals, or groups. I also highlighted the fact that there’s no need for them to be jokes, rather than plain knowledge. Specially if that knowledge brings you some kind of emotion: sharing that emotion with someone else, and [...]