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Funny facts and reflections about life and learning

yoga transforms your life

Here listening to "Yoganotti", the way Michael (5 yoa) says Jovanotti - an Italian singer - Seems that he is very into yoga practise... and it is completely my fault.

Hey, I want to be successful!

Then you will first have to define success, what does it really mean to you? Then, according to Richard St John in his TED talk, you will have to go through lot of Criticism, Rejection, "Annoying-people" and Pressure (CRAP)!

Or, maybe, we should just redefine the concept of success and learn to be happy from a more simplified perspective...

Gamifying the game

It is day 39 of the lockdown. Playing marbles I suggested to add more fun and include some obstacles on the "playing field" . We have used toy cars to increase the level of complexity.

Michael was putting the cars very close to each other so marbles could not reach the circle. He has just learned one of the basic principles of gamification: it must be challenging but achievable. He finally gamified the game successfully, indicators of fun grew exponentially :)

Visual cross-cultural communication in COVID-19 times

This is one of the positive messages we have shared with our neighbours on our window. Slàinte means health in Irish - it is also the expression used to toast. The shamrock is an Irish symbol related to saint Patrick but we used the four-leave one, a symbol of good luck to strengthen the message. I look around and see a Napoli football team scarf beside a message I can't read with the Spanish and Italian flags together; then a bilingual Catalan/Spanish balcony with a message encouraging and thanking the neighbourhood; and everywhere, I see drawings with rainbows, I cannot see if there are written messages but I don't need to read to understand. They have become the international wordless symbol of hope - everything will be ok, todo irá bien, tot anirà bé, tutto andrà bene.

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