Economics

What is the Gini index? Yesterday I saw a young couple arriving in a restaurant to have lunch, driving a car obviously bought only for sunny weekends. They gave the keys to the valet parking driver who would have to handout his monthly income to have one meal at the same restaurant, or work more than 312 years to gather the money equal to the price of the car. This is a Gini index of 56,7 the 10th highest in the world, and shows that something is completely wrong.

Spring

As much as I would like to fight the idea, the sun has huge impact on the mood of almost everyone. Not only each person isolated quits the resignation mood from clouds and grey skies, but the collective mood creates a synergy with every person process, accelerating change and bringing consequences as more laughs, less stress, equilibrium, motivation an at least superficially happiness.
In the process of generating happiness only from the inside, I would love to isolate external factors, but I have to accept the sun helps, and helps a lot. I suppose we as animals can’t avoid influences from the environment. Welcome again sunny days!!

Framing

I have a friend that says that we all have just three opportunities in life, and we have to be aware, to be able to make good use of them. He claims he already lost two, and he’s waiting for his last one.
I refuse to believe that our destiny is not in our hands. As the Boss ad says, the day is what we make of it. I think there are a lot of opportunities every time, is just the way we look at things and situations what enable us to discover them.
There are situations in life that make us change completely the way we think as an accident, an experience or religion among others. I have another friend in the middle of this process, and although might be terrible to feel clueless for some time, as soon as new priorities and objectives begin to appear in the shadows, a myriad of new opportunities come to light. Is just our decision to maintain this optimistic and motivated view.