The Stoics have been using the “view from above” exercise to force their mind to observe a situation from such a distance to make it feel insignificant.The usual metaphor is to imagine ourselves experiencing the planet earth from the eyes of an astronaut. This way “earthly” problems looks pretty small.Today, there was tons of micromanagement at work....Read More

Philocaly means to love beauty. I guess we all do love beauty. We do! Maybe it is difficult to recognize beauty in times of crises. Maybe there is a lack of stimuli when, for example, you are forced to stay home in quarantine. But beauty is still there, nonetheless. In a nice restaurant when we...Read More

Back in March 2020, during the first COVID-19 lockdown, I was sitting in my home office pondering on how our daily routine was probably going to change for a long time, if not forever. After a short break — the summer of 2020 — the second lockdown came even harder on my country (Greece), with a duration of more than...Read More