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 […]
When democracy was ‘invented’ in Greece, citizens (but just the free ones) of the Polis, the city, would join together at the Ágora, a hill outside Athens, to discuss matters of the interest of the society and vote to create policies (named after the Polis). Every citizen (again, just the free ones) had a voice […]
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