As a scientist, entrepreneur and creator, I get frustrated many, many times when I fail to execute on an idea and create something. Guilt usually comes after. But how much was really my fault? Or my teams fault? Like many things that become obvious after you realize it, it was only after I read this […]
Just recently I came across ‘Maslow’s hierarchy of needs’ in humans, reading ‘the price of tomorrow’ by Jeff Booth. In 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) proposed a theory that all humans possess a hierarchy of needs from basic need to self-actualization: some needs were more important than others, and needs on one level must […]
I was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro and balanced flexibility is my super power I was born and raised in #RioDeJaneiro and that in part defines who I am. #DomenicoDeMasi says that #Flexibility is the biggest quality and the biggest flaw in #Brazilians. My #SuperPower is to balance it to be a competitive […]
If you’ve ever been to Rio de Janeiro, you’ve most certainly seen the writings of ‘Gentileza’. A prophet for some, a crazy old guy for others, he walked around the city grafting his messages of peace, love and kindness in street walls and viaduct pillars. His moto was: “kindness leads to kindness”. Crazy or not, he […]
A woman once told me: “What attracts in you, is the same thing that afterwards repels.” It took me a long time to understand what she meant. To explain, I want to tell a story. Once, I went to the Bleu exhibition, by the French artist Yves Klein, reluctant, because it was monochromatic. But it […]
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