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…

When my train of thought goes too fast about an idea, project, new study, or I simply suffer from information overload, I need to slow down or have a pause. …

Or, how I learned that a sound is just a sound. — I heard the mosquito’s buzz just after I committed to staying quiet and still, meditating in semi-loto posture until I achieve enlightenment. Well, or at least, until I had a very decent meditation. It was a beautiful night, not cold, not warm. …

What this means for resilience, meditation and consciousness — Three seconds last the present, scientists say. Our brain considers the present instant from a second ago, the current second, the second to come. The rest is past or future. Deep down, anything other than those three seconds does not exist. It was or will be, but it is not. Eternal past, infinite future …

How to experience the world like a baby — Contrary to what we usually think, consciousness has little to do with intelligence or reason and, instead, has much more to do with the body, breathing, emotions… Thinking, reasoning, mind wandering, no matter how logical or rational it may seem, or if we solve a mathematical equation in doing so…