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.

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.

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.

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.

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

People comment on how you look; it's so unnecessary. I just wanted people to listen to what I have to say instead of focusing on anything else.

Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate... He's legit.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.

I eat to survive, you know?

The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.

The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me.

Always look on the bright side of life. Otherwise it'll be too dark to read.

Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin privilege from the time I was little, I was aware of that.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.