After the experience, the sharing — You have the right age to be wise. Or you think you know enough on a topic to share your wisdom about it. Perhaps, at the end of a big project, long relationship, school years, long trip, you want to keep your deepest learnings in place. Maybe, you want to…

On emerging professions and their place in society. — It's hard to imagine a child saying that s/he wants to be a UX designer when s/he grows up. Why? Let’s try to explain to a five-year-old what a UX designer does. You can talk just about some aspects of the profession, like, “a UX designer researches like a scientific”…

The things I liked most when we were normal were those that were far from normal. — I hear people saying that they want to come back to normal as soon as possible. They are desperate of being in lockdown, not having the productive life they had before, the human contact… I miss those too. But I don’t know if they remember the other stuff. The commuting…

How to find wisdom and happiness in times of quarantine and loneliness. “So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago. Something was broken in my engine. And as…

The myth of the marshmallow experiment or how to learn to forget the uncertain future and enjoy the tangible present — — Kid, you have two options. Eat this marshmallow now or wait 15 minutes and have 2 marshmallows instead of one. — Wait. What? — If you can wait, it means you are going to be a successful person in ten years, have a great SAT score, an ideal body…

Getting things done with your kids next to you — One of the almost never mentioned things about working at home is when you have to do it with your children. The reason? Children are usually at the school when you do remote work or freelancing so they don’t deserve a mention in any productivity guide. But this condition can…

I’m afraid she can’t handle an app specially designed for adolescents — It was one of those moments as a parent where you knew it was going to eventually happen but you always hoped it never would. My teenage daughter asked her mother for permission to install the TikTok app on her cellphone and sign up for an account. My wife is…

No, they are not passion, excitement, sexiness, fun or joy — As a psychotherapist, as a father, and as a husband, love is far from being just passion, excitement, sexiness, fun and joy, and more being a continuous stream of emotions, learnings, and experiences. Let me share with you—as I have shared with my patients—three very uncommon ingredients love needs. What does love need? Once…

The most important question you can ask others or yourself — I don’t remember exactly why he started to tell me the story of how his dog has died recently. We were having a small talk while we were waiting for a loved one in common. He wasn’t a friend but an acquaintance. I think he was telling the story to…

Because an emotion doesn’t need to give reasons or tell stories — I learned, a little late maybe, the key question anyone should answer in those situations — or any situation for that matter — to others or to ourselves. How do you feel about it? * I feel a mix of joy, nurturing and confidence when my three-year-old daughter keeps silent…

Because there is always more than one. — Every person lives Christmas in very different ways. There are multiple things to experience and multiple ways people experience them. The Santa Claus experience I never liked Santa Claus when I was a kid. I mean, I loved the character depicted in tales, movies, TV shows and commercials. And of course, I loved the…

The secrets of pet therapy for daily life use — It was one of those days I had to finish a report from work. I took the task home because I thought working in my own place could make me more productive. Well, and I didn’t want to be at work, really. I was deceiving myself. I didn’t want to…

Should I stay or should I go? — I’m watching at a distance to my three-year-old daughter climbing the little ladder that gets her into the playground. It has five steps and is one of the access to use the slides and fireman tubes for little kids. She used to take one of the little stairs but today…

Most of the time, I don’t have time or energy. And the productivity hacks out there don’t work. Why? — Today, I read productivity tips and methods, from how to write more or better to how to become a millionaire in X time, and most of them seem very out of reality. I mean, almost all of them. And out of my reality, of course. That didn’t happen before. I…