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How to motivate yourself when you’re not motivated

by Carlota Gregório / September 23, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’re anything like me, you pass through phases. Sometimes you’re motivated, sometimes you’re not. Some people are able to separate what doesn’t motivate them, from everything else. But I can’t. Whenever something becomes more of a burden than a joy, I tend to get so frustrated that I let it affect other aspects of my life. After years of knowing and over-analyzing myself, I came to…

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Why I don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore

by Carlota Gregório / January 4, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutes Every year, on the 1st of January, as millions of people around the world, I would write down a list of resolutions for the year. Of course, my list would ALWAYS include something as “Lose 10 kilos in 3 months”. Besides being stupidly unreachable, I would only work out during the first two weeks of the year and then forget about the resolution. And as the majority…

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Companies don’t have values. People do.

by Fernando Moreira / May 4, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Because of the current hype of entrepreneurship and startups, we seem to understand the concept of company differently, attributing it more human characteristics and qualities than we probably should. Right now, in our era, we say that companies have a culture and therefore have values too. I don’t believe so. Before – Yesterday After the industrial revolution, we have been focused on scale and money. We’re focused on…

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Whatever you resist, persists.

by Michel Cânovas / October 5, 2017

Reading Time: 4 minutes I am right now in Barcelona and apart from everything else that pops to my mind, of which everyone is talking and writing about, the one thing that once again reveals itself clear as ever is: “whatever you resist, persists”. And grows most of the time, I would add. This is not intended to be a political post. It is not about “sí” or “no” and what…

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$1000 in Sunk Costs and why the name Angry Ventures

by Fernando Moreira / May 11, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes Maybe you think anger is a bad thing, right? If yes, I feel that what you have is a belief, not a thought. Allow me to share my belief about why I think anger is not a bad thing. The conference. This last weekend, I attended a conference with more than 10,000 people. Every human being at that conference desired a change in their lives. More fulfillment,…

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I make my bed every day. Even in hotel rooms…

by Fernando Moreira / January 26, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes We, humans, also taxonomically known as homo sapiens, from Latin, “wise man” – also called human beings, persons, people, men – are driven by motivations. In my case, I’m driven by watching things happening around me. The more things I do, the more I want to do next. Actually, for me, life is like an addicting game that my own ego creates. As much as I try…