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.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

I want a person to come into my life by accident, but stays on purpose.

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

I've always wanted to buy a sports car. After the England series, I went up to my dad and said that I wanted to buy a sports car and got his consent. On his birthday, I surprised him by bringing it home. It's a Porsche Boxter Limited Edition, and my family was thrilled to see it.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

It's no good in a scene to have one actor lie down because the scene says it's the other actor's moment. Each actor has to believe that with extra will, the outcome of a scene can be different. An actor can win the scene if he exerts the most powerful will in that moment.

I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.

I regret the Pro Fit investment because I didn't know that I was dealing with people who were more concerned about the exposure than fixing their business.

Honestly, I want to live a calm life without being in the press. I want to be like any other American citizen who gets a speeding ticket or has an argument with his spouse... and doesn't have the whole world know.

I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.

Being a good tattle tale requires exceptional attention to details and then blowing them out of proportion.

The mind in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.

Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.

To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.

Pirates have always fascinated me.