Notes

Many activities, including professional ones, become easier when you realize there's nothing to do. Read →

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How to continue the videos and notes in a more interactive, present way? Read →

The career you chose, and the difficulties you face in advancing, are almost certainly tied to your relationship with your parents. Read →

The phrase to repeat when you're not at all doing what you should be doing. Read →

Some events in life feel like games you can't afford to lose. But nobody told us the rules. Read →

Every morning, we open our eyes and the flood of obligations comes rushing back. Does it have to be this way? Read →

I often say that "what matters is never intellectual." There are few areas where this is more true than in creativity. Read →

AI corrects, translates and codes. But for writing, it's useless. Read →

I regularly rediscover the benefits and formidable effectiveness of doing things extremely slowly. Read →

We often look for ways to avoid suffering. Spirituality is built on the idea that we should accept it. Read →

In conversations, I find myself uncomfortable when asked "so, what are your projects right now?" Read →

Many of you reacted to my recent videos on action, goals and karma. Here are my answers to a few questions from the comments. Read →

Overwhelmed at work? Stressed about money? Use this prompt to turn your life around overnight. Read →

Sometimes you feel paralyzed. Because a part of you is pushing for action and sabotaging it at the same time. Read →

Whether it's hunger, motivation or happiness, what our brain perceives is the variation. This is the principle of non-duality. Read →

The magic system that lets you quickly memorize any number from 0 to 99. No more struggling with door codes or phone numbers! Read →

Every moment, every action counts. Not just the ones people see or the ones that produce a result. Read →

It doesn't look like much, but it's been a battle for a long time: I merged my personal and professional identities. Read →

This is a question I'm asking out loud. Often, I'm in a hurry and I'm not sure the few words I throw down here are of any interest. Read →

I still go often to the SACD Writers' House . To write, to work, for meetings, for screenings. (Authors can rent offices there for free.) The Writers' House, like the SACD offices for that matter, are places where you feel welcome. Read →

My technique for creating my blog posts or daily videos is as follows: Either an idea comes to me. Then, if I can, I take out my phone and record it right away. Read →

To understand leverage in finance, imagine that one day you receive a machine with the following property: When you insert €100 on one side, a year later, €130 comes out the other. Read →

All the notes and videos I'm posting right now are about presence. Read →

Generally, we do everything to avoid it. When we feel anxiety rising, we associate it with a problem, a fear, a goal, so we act. What action will make it go away? When action isn't enough, we try something else. Or we take it personally. Another failure. Read →

I'm currently doing a series on meditation in my daily videos . From the start, I've been using these videos to reinforce concepts I've understood intellectually but don't apply enough in daily life. Read →

To achieve presence, you must have faith that full immersion in the current action will naturally shape what comes next. Read →

Lost in life? Not sure anymore where to go, what to do, what goal to pursue? Place your attention on the present. Tired? Not feeling yourself? The sense that you're not where you should be, that you're wasting your day? Read →

And yet I meditated this morning. It's a quieter day—well, not quieter, lots of things to do, but not too much work. But there it is: bad mood. Maybe the flight back. Maybe the food. Nerves unwinding. Read →

Woke up in the middle of the night with this very clear recipe idea in my head: Splinter Rice Recipe (20 minutes, easy level) Mix a bowl of rice with a large quantity of splinters that will flavor the dish but that you absolutely, absolutely must not s... Read →