How to Escape the brown compromise trap We are all painters The brown compromise is an analogy from the painting world. The story goes like this: if you ask a family of five folks living in the same house which colour they prefer, you may end up with a dataset like this one: green, yellow, blue, violet, and I don’t care (yes, this is not a colour!). You may also end up in a family (like mine) where one of the users (me!

Navigating the Rhythms of the Mind An elephant at sunset by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on UnspashPhoto by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unspash Our mind operates with two main paradigms. Open or closed. Openness is the feeling we experience when connecting directly with our experience. It can be while being in the flow state, as identified by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi where we lose our sense of time and solicit our brain effortlessly.

What better moment to reflect on life, life choices and happiness than a day after you were laid off? Ultimately, the reasons do not matter much and will not be exposed here. A one to zero transition: I realized today that quitting your job (without another one planned) or being fired is a 1-to-0 transition. In physics, this is called a non-linear transition. It describes rapidly evolving phenomena like phase transitions and the exponential growth of tiny lifeforms.