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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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?

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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.

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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...

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My mom lives in Morocco, so it's not easy to avoid flying. But here I am at the airport for work. And honestly, I could have organized things differently, but everything happened so fast. The success of an offer I put together kind of accelerated my life.

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When people used to ask me "what do you do?", I'd always say: "I make films." I never dared say "I'm a filmmaker" because that would've implied I made a living from it, which has never quite been the case.

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Something my son said yesterday while we were out walking: "Nobody wants problems. But some people have problems." What could I do but agree? It reminded me a bit of Chevalier and Laspalès' "some tried, they had problems" sketch.

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I'm blown away by the relevance of my posts 😎. For me, only. I realize two days after posting a video , or three days after adding a note right here, that the content in question answers exactly the question I'm asking myself right now. But like...

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This morning's rain made me realize that some seemingly superficial stress can run much deeper than expected.

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Books, recordings and apps that have been most important in my meditation practice and my understanding of Eastern philosophy.

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Meditation is about bringing your attention to the present moment. The arm. That tension in the neck. The bird singing. A thought arising. A sudden feeling of sadness. That shifts and disappears. The foot against the ground. The breath. The bird, again.

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I've discovered that I work like ChatGPT. And you probably do too. Meaning that my next action is essentially determined by whatever context elements I happen to have in my head at that moment. And, like ChatGPT, that context is minimal.

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Three people recognized me on the street in Paris because they follow me on Instagram . One the night before last, and two this afternoon. All very kind, each time. So what do I do, quit everything? 😅

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In professional rivalries, doing it before the other can become more important than doing exactly what you want.

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Verbal thought is just commentary. ( We've talked about it. ) It's not what chooses the action. No: it observes and comments. A bit like a babushka sitting all day at the foot of a building: "Did you see that? They chose to raise their right arm again.

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Personally, I've reached 12K followers on Instagram . I remember a time when I wanted to create discussion groups with friends: virtual salons where I could find conversation and company 24/7. It never worked out.

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Everything is so clear when I'm present. When I'm curious about the moment, when I inspect the colors, sounds, and sensations that come to me... The world is no longer mysterious. It's no longer frightening. Stories of success and failure seem far away.

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Hit ten thousand followers on Instagram . Does that officially make me an influencer? The best part: the messages and comments. It's helped me find a whole bunch of people who are interested in the same things I am.

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Yet another abandoned project (for now). Animated science fiction short film about the life of the first human on Mars... who happens to be a 7-year-old child. When technology became advanced enough to reach Mars, every government on the planet wondered..

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What you do now is what you'll do later. Preparation can become your entire life.

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