“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck”. Dalai Lama I can imagine at least a hundred of book titles that promise to reveal one of the biggest secrets: how to get what you want. It’s like a cake recipe. Everyone claims that have the perfect recipe, but in the end all have almost the same materials, only proportions change. The result depends upon the same factors: good materials, well-functioning devices, excellent and precise…

“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights”. Maya Angelou Is it a coincidence? All playwrights and novelists from ancient Greek tragedies to contemporary movies and theatrical plays use stressful and extreme events to reveal their characters. Imitating real life, writers know very well that circumstances are the triggering events to bring to light our characteristics, our dispositions. Chancy events,…

“Nothing is more fragile than the surface”. Gilles Deleuze