El kaizen funciona porque desarma la respuesta cerebral al miedo (tu cerebro está programado para resistir al cambio), estimulando el pensamiento racional y el juego creativo.

Kaizen: uso de pasos muy pequeños para mejorar un hábito, un proceso o un producto.

Mito 1: el cambio es duro. En realidad, grandes cambios pueden tener lugar con pequeños pasos con poco esfuerzo. Ej: efectos del sedentarismo: mejor un paseo corto cada hora que pasar una hora en el gym cada día.

Mito 2: El tamaño del paso determina el tamaño de los resultados, de modo que hace falta dar grandes pasos para obtener grandes resultados. Los pequeños cambios pueden llevar a grandes resultados. Ej.: estudio de 400k taiwaneses, viven 3 años + haciendo 15 minutos de ejercicio al día.

El kaizen es lento, la innovación es más rápida. No siempre lo rápido es lo más eficaz.

El problema de la innovación: a menudo hallas el éxito en el corto plazo, solo para descubrir que vuelves a caer en tus antiguas maneras de actuar, cuando tu estallido inicial de entusiasmo se desvanece.

La filosofía de los pequeños pasos hacia la mejora fue introducida en Japón después de la guerra, cuando las fuerzas de ocupación del general Douglas MacArthur comenzaron a reconstruir aquel país devastado.

6 estrategias para la aplicación personal del kaizen: 1-Hacer preguntas pequeñas, para disipar temores e inspirar la creatividad. 2-Tener pensamientos pequeños, para desarrollar nuevas habilidades y hábitos. 3-Realizar acciones pequeñas que garanticen el éxito.

4-Resolver problemas pequeños, incluso en crisis abrumadoras. 5-Concederte premios pequeños. 6-Reconocer los pequeños pero cruciales momentos que los demás ignoran.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

I'll keep going until i get to the point where i can't get out on stage.

Nothing sounds as crazy as telling people you're not crazy.

I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.

Afterlife exist in the unidentified substances.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

I didn't quite believe I was pretty for a long time. I never thought about it.

The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.

Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where jazz was considered the best thing ever, so I had to leave it be for a long time. But now I'm rediscovering it. I'm approaching jazz in a different way.

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

So lovely was the loneliness of a wild lake.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

Harassment is the background radiation of my life. It is a factor in every decision I make. Any time I tweet something or make a post, I'm always thinking about it.