Maria Carolina Cruz

Gold Resists the Entropic Laws of Decay.

On a previous article, I wrote about envy and about how greater minds are feared by lesser minds. How your greatness reminds others of what they could not accomplish and about how scared they feel to see you living your dreams, while they sit in a corner ... Read >

Great Minds are Always Feared by Lesser Minds

The choice is ours: we can spend a weekend watching Prison Break, or we can spend the same time reading the great Dialogues of Plato. There are many choices that can be made; sleep late or get fit in the park, eat a brownie or an apple, drink a martini or... Read >

Witnessing the Rapid Change of a Species.

Recently, while waiting on an airport lounge for my very delayed flight, I read on a psychology/fashion/beauty magazine an article about the way that men think. The article revealed the conclusions of a study conducted in the Netherlands about the effect ... Read >

How High are the Stakes?

If you are a fan of Madonna, you may agree with me that her album "Confessions on a Dance Floor" contains some of the most metaphysical messages that you can find in music. If you are not very familiar with her music on this album, I can advise you to lis... Read >

The magic is in the process.

If you find yourself reading this article, chances are you have been stumbling from one task to the other, with a fixed goal in mind and working hard to reach your objective. For a moment, sit still and breathe slower. Become conscious of what is happeni... Read >

The innocence of age.

I wonder if experience comes with age, or with certain exposure to a certain subject. Let me give you an example: you are 60 years old, and you worked all your life in the same office doing the same job, let's say handling the contracts of your division.... Read >

The CPR of Office Dynamics: Competition, Purpose, Reward.

Have you ever taken a personality and career test?. My test results indicate that I am a very non-competitive person, but I am very reward oriented, and though I can succeed at almost any task given to me, it seems I can only engage in tasks that I absolu... Read >

Why you shouldn’t let your boss take control of your career.

The great Greek philosopher Socrates once asked: in a time of need, would you choose the captain of your ship because of his ability and knowledge or because of his popularity?. In the context of history, Socrates referred to the Spartans who'd been put... Read >

You Need a Mentor, Not Your Mentor’s Tick in the Box

"Do you have a mentor?" How many times have you been asked this question? Chances are, if you work in a big 500 fortune corporation, you've heard this question more than once. It is also very possible, that your answer to that question was something on ... Read >

What you can accomplish when your mentor is Rembrandt Van Rijn.

One of the most extraordinary paintings in the world is the Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, a masterpiece of Dutch painter Rembrandt Van Rijn. I have met people who have crossed two continents and a vast ocean to arrive in New York City to see this incre... Read >

I trade you my $999 Louboutins for your $9.99 glitter slippers! -Desperate measures from desperate

Last week, partying at the mega cool Pacha night club in NYC, I came to realize that sometimes, under desperate conditions, we, women of the world, are willing to fail our innermost values. Wearing a pair of 14cms Bianca heels by Louboutin, I was going m... Read >

A girly-bird trying to make it into a male-bird dominated world.

A few weeks ago, while on holiday at my parent's home, we bought a little pink-yellow female canary. My mother and father already had five male canaries wandering around in the big patio. There are huge bamboo trees and plenty of space to fly and feel a... Read >