Good habits, and other memes

Meme: “The term “meme” (rhyming with “theme”), coined in 1976 by the biol­o­gist Richard Dawkins, refers to a “unit of cul­tur­al infor­ma­tion” which can prop­a­gate from one mind to anoth­er in a man­ner anal­o­gous to genes.

If you haven’t read Dawkins’ clas­sic book The Self­ish Gene…it is nev­er too late to enjoy it!

There are some “memes” float­ing now around blog­gers and I have been “tagged” (includ­ed) by 2 of them. So here you have:

1) On good dai­ly habits: this is the orig­i­nal post, and here are Hueina’s My Sim­ply Suc­cess­ful Secrets.

My “Sim­ply Sucess­ful Secrets” habits that I fol­low close to every day, in more or less that sequence:

• Per­form 10–15 min­utes of breath­ing exer­cis­es to improve ground­ing, bal­ance, and breath­ing capacity
• Spend 10 min­utes visu­al­iz­ing and writ­ing down the key objec­tives for the day
• Eat a nice and healthy lunch-nev­er in front of the computer
• Read some­thing com­plete­ly unre­lat­ed to my work in the evening
• Kiss and com­pli­ment my wife before going to sleep-nev­er go unhappy/ stressed to sleep

2) On “5 things you may not know about me”. Senia: thanks for your patience…

• I defined myself as a “Learn­ing micro-organ­ism” in the Stan­ford class that prob­a­bly influ­enced me the most. I love learn­ing, and learn­ing about learn­ing-which is what led me to learn­ing about how the brain works
• Orig­i­nal­ly from Bil­bao, in the Span­ish Basque Coun­try, and very proud of it, I am now very hap­py to be liv­ing in the glob­al com­mu­ni­ty of the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area
• When I was work­ing very very hard in con­sult­ing com­pa­ny McK­in­sey & Com­pa­ny, I start­ed to take sal­sa danc­ing lessons-prob­a­bly one of my wis­est deci­sions ever
• The oth­er one was to mar­ry my wife Lisa and cel­e­brate a World Wed­ding Tour to share the par­ty with friends…instead of ask­ing every­one to come to meet us, and giv­en how much we love to travel…we decid­ed to take the wed­ding on the road, includ­ing print­ing some tour T‑shirts…
• My role mod­els are the social entre­pre­neurs, many of them friends by now, who devote their lives to solv­ing social prob­lems in very prag­mat­ic and scal­able ways. My wife and I have been active in net­works such as Ashoka and The Schwab Foun­da­tion for Social Entre­pre­neur­ship, so I am then very proud that Sharp­Brains has just been nom­i­nat­ed for the The Tech Muse­um Awards — Tech­nol­o­gy Ben­e­fit­ing Human­i­ty.

I tag, for both memes:

• Bora from A Blog Around The Clock
• Brett from Trad­ing Psychology
• Michelle from Trad­ing Mike 
• Stephanie from ide­alawg
• Jane from NakedMed­i­cine

Enjoy the final hours of the weekend!