We keep fleeing the void, filling it with thoughts rather than facing it. And yet physicists are discovering that the quantum vacuum is not absence but potential, energy fluctuations that create. The same applies to the mind. This week was genuinely hard, the challenge is still ongoing.
But in the void I found something precious. And I am still here.
The void that creates: navigating chaos without fleeing it Read Post »
In a period of cognitive restructuring the greatest risk is mistaking tiredness for regression. Over the past few weeks I thought I was going backwards. Then metacognition read the moment: tiredness, heat, a body that has not yet updated its software to the mind’s new version. It is not regression.
It is adaptation. And the Go stones placed months ago are bearing their fruit.
Cognitive restructuring: when the body hasn’t updated its software yet Read Post »
Fear in everyday life is not something to eliminate, it is something to manage. Letting it overwhelm you makes it grow, mastering it turns it into fuel. The same applies to Jung’s Shadow: not to be fought but integrated. For months my dreams have been confirming this, almost lucid from the inside. The common narrative asks us to keep everything in separate compartments.
Real wellbeing begins when we stop obeying it.
Fear: From Enemy to Fuel Read Post »
Biases are hard to uproot, but progress is possible. Even when it comes from uncomfortable places. There’s a silent and costly pattern: those who see the problem and wait for someone else to act. The erosion continues, sandbags keep stacking downstream, and the price is always paid by someone.
But in Go, every stone counts, even the ones that look still.
When the Status Quo Becomes Complicity: The Hidden Cost of Waiting for Others to Act Read Post »
A simple moment, opening a stubborn can of tuna, becomes a window into metacognition: the mind observing its own thinking. This self-awareness sharpens decision-making and reduces unnecessary rumination.
By grounding, feeling contact with the environment, we create distance to see the structure of thought itself. With this practice, clarity replaces noise, allowing more deliberate actions and less mental friction throughout life.
Metacognition: When Your Mind Observes Itself Read Post »
Rumination is a bitch, damn if it’s a bitch. Pardon my French but these are the perfect words. That client who owes you money? The mind starts grinding anger, wraps around itself, infinite loop. And transforms a person with mistakes into a Public Enemy Number One. Objective data multiplied tenfold, monsters created. Then talking it resolves, but the wound remains because of our attitude. Techniques like breathing and grounding help. But content is also needed. It’s not immediate, it’s not easy. It’s possible.
Rumination: the bitch that devours your mind Read Post »
Doing for the sake of doing. That Italian culture where if you don’t do immediately you’re lazy, useless, lost in chatter. But Steve Jobs didn’t solder iPhones. Enzo Ferrari didn’t assemble engines. Toto Wolff doesn’t change tires in the pit. They allowed the brain to work before doing. Systematic approach: hours thinking about design of a detail, then a 2-hour meeting that changes the entire product. You don’t need to be Jobs to apply this. Stop 10 minutes before the event and think about table organization. The mechanism is identical on a small scale. Systematic approach isn’t for the unreachable. It’s for anyone who wants to do well, not just a lot.
The myth of “Doing”: why Jobs and Ferrari don’t just do for the sake of doing Read Post »
Verticalizing means personalizing the approach. It costs effort today but generates well-being tomorrow. It’s not privilege, it’s equity: giving each person what they need for the same goal. From yourself to children, from work to the world. A neurodivergent student verticalized today becomes an autonomous adult tomorrow. An understood employee today becomes an effective leader tomorrow. Effort is investment. Well-being is return. Exponential.
Verticalizing: today’s effort becomes tomorrow’s well-being for all Read Post »
In three months I’ve changed more than expected. “Am I delusional?” I wondered. Then I studied Feynman and understood: there are three times. Physical time advances, biological time you manage, perceptual time you shape. Metacognition compresses perceptual time. Three months can be worth years. Not magic. Mind mechanics.
Three months or three years? The time of mental transformation Read Post »
In Italian society, we judge those who think differently, almost ghettoizing neurodivergence. But what if we are the mistake? From linear to networked thinking, from elementary philosophy to critical thinking: an invitation to contaminate each other instead of fearing diversity.
Neurodivergence and networked thinking: why we should contaminate each other Read Post »
