He notado que las personas que leen mucho no necesariamente saben más, pero piensan diferente. Tienen más ángulos para entrar a un problema, más formas de encuadrarlo hasta que algo hace clic. No es conocimiento acumulado, es perspectiva prestada que con el tiempo se vuelve propia. Y eso se nota en conversación, en cómo razonan bajo presión, en la calidad de sus decisiones. Leer es probablemente la forma más barata y accesible de ampliar cómo ves el mundo.
El silencio se constituye como un medio aristocrático. Ahí en donde el ruido se convierte en el signo del medio, se acaba la posibilidad de la reflexión, del pensamiento; a las personas les resulta insoportable la quietud por la sencilla razón de que, en ese entorno, deben escuchar sus pensamientos y sus inquietudes de manera más íntima. El aburrimiento, que viene acompañado con la posibilidad emergente de la creatividad, también resulta despreciado por estas personas adictas a la bulla.
Hay dos formas de medir si uno va bien:
1) Una es mirar hacia afuera: qué tienen los demás, qué opinan de ti, si tu posición es mejor o peor que la del vecino.
2) La otra es mirar hacia adentro: si lo que haces tiene sentido para ti, si las decisiones que tomas reflejan lo que valoras.
El primero es agotador porque no tiene techo. Siempre habrá alguien con más, con algo más nuevo, con una historia más impresionante. El segundo es más difícil de construir, pero cuando uno lo tiene, la brújula no depende de lo que otros hagan o dejen de hacer.
Eso último, en términos prácticos, es una forma real de libertad.
Kasparov demolishing the "what's your morning routine" crowd. Everyone wants the surface-level stuff because surface-level answers are easy to copy. But the real work is internal archaeology.
Here's what makes hitting a baseball borderline impossible.
The ball travels 9 feet before your brain even registers it left the pitcher's hand. By the time you "see" where it is, it's already somewhere else. perception is always lagging. So hitting isn't about reacting. It's about predicting and then committing to that prediction before you have confirmation. Because by the time you have confirmation, the ball is past you.
The thing about excellence is it's exhausting to be around if you're not ready to match it.
Jordan didn't just raise the bar, he made the bar so high that standing near it was physically painful for everyone else because his baseline was everyone else's maximum effort.
Mañana comienza una nueva serie en el programa Venezolanos, se titula “Cronología republicana 1810-2010”, por 90.3 fm, Unión Radio. Sábados 12 m y domingo 10 am, los esperamos.
The ONLY correct way to do a step through. Mike did it the right way- notice how he only lifts his pivot foot to shoot, the guys today are traveling.
Argue with your momma! ✌️
(Isoscoring IG)
You are not tired because life is hard. You are tired because your brain is running a badly designed operating system.
Everyone thinks the problem is “too much to do.” But if you list everything you did yesterday, it’s usually not that impressive: some emails, a few meetings, refreshing three different apps in the hopes that one of them has delivered meaning.
Yet you end the day feeling like you were hit by a truck full of lukewarm obligations.
The truck is not the work itself. It is what I call "Background Narrative Load".
It's what happens when every unfinished thing in your life spins up a little story in your head and then refuses to shut down.
The text you haven’t answered is not just “reply to Sam.” It’s a 3‑episode miniseries about whether Sam is mad at you.
The conversation you’re avoiding is not “talk to my manager.” It’s an 18‑season prestige drama about your entire career, your childhood, and whether you are, in fact, a disappointing person.
The dentist appointment you keep postponing is a body‑horror movie that ends with all your teeth falling out in public.
Individually, each of these loops is tiny.
Collectively, they turn your mind into Netflix with autoplay permanently enabled.
The Most Influential Books Ever Written
1. 🇮🇱 The Holy Bible:
2. 🇸🇦 القرآن الكريم (The Qur'an)
3. 🇬🇷 The Republic – Plato
4. 🇬🇧 The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
5. 🇬🇧 1984 – George Orwell
6. 🇬🇧 The Complete Works – William Shakespeare
7. 🇮🇹 The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
8. 🇩🇪 Das Kapital – Karl Marx
9. 🇺🇸 The Book of Mormon – Joseph Smith Jr.
10. 🇩🇪 The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
11. 🇬🇷 The Odyssey – Homer
12. 🇨🇳 Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu
13. 🇮🇳 The Upanishads – Anonymous
14. 🇬🇧 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
15. 🇬🇷 The Iliad / The Odyssey – Homer
16. 🇷🇺 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
17. 🇬🇧 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft
18. 🇮🇹 Meditations – Marcus Aurelius (Roman Empire)
19. 🇩🇪 Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant
20. 🇷🇺 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
21. 🇪🇸 Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
22. 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Relativity: The Special and the General Theory – Albert Einstein
23. 🇩🇪 Being and Time – Martin Heidegger
24. 🇫🇷 Candide – Voltaire
25. 🇮🇹 The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
26. 🇩🇪 Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche
27. 🇺🇸 Cosmos – Carl Sagan
28. 🇺🇸 On the Duty of Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
29. 🇺🇸 Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
30. 🏴 The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy – Isaac Newton
Note : This list emphasizes transformative impact on human thought and civilization rather than popularity or sales. Religious texts rank highly due to their global, enduring role in shaping cultures and laws.
Source: Goodreads user-voted list "The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Write"