The Need To Be Perfect

Is the need to be perfect (or perform perfectly) the most polished way of showing (or disguising) solicitude, insecurity or the impostor syndrome? The topic always reminds me one of my favourite movies of all time and the winning Oscar laureate Natalie Portman for her...

Burnout Prevention

  After a Pilates/Yoga workout session one of my students started talking about running Lisbon’s half marathon. The 62-year-old man ran 17 Kilometres in 43 minutes and had made it in 42 minutes once. “The most difficult part is not the race, it’s the preparation...

Balancing Work And Rest

Anders Ericsson’s research on the 10.000 hour rule to achieve mastery has become a corner-stone to every world-class achiever’s frame of mind. 10.000 hours of deliberate practice equals 10 years of hard work. There upon one should ask: how should  the work load...