Phd Thesis of a russian thinker named - Guerdjef - Part 1

This post is about inner quality of life. The story about a russian thinker that in the beginning of the
20th century altready spoke about self knowledge and the importante to know how to live

He said " A good life has as a base the sense of what we want for us in each moment and of what, really, worth as principal.

So he pointed 20 rules of life that were placed in highlights in the French institute of ansiety and stress, in Paris.

The experts in behaviour said that who already assimilated 10 rules, surely, learned to live with inner quality.


1) Make pauses each 10 minutes in each 2hours of work, at the maximum.
Repeat these pauses in your daily life and think of you, analising your atitudes

2)Learn to say no without to feel guilty or thinking that you hurt someone. Trying to please to everybody is an enormous bad thing.

3)Plan your day, yes, but  let always space for unpredictable things, having in mind that not everything depends of you

4) Have a concentration in only one task at a time. Even that the mental frames are agile, you will become tired without need.

5) Really forget that you are always needed in work, at home, in your habitual group.
If this dislikes you, remember that everything walk without your actuation, but you need yourself to walk.

6) Don't want to be the source of pleasure of everybody. You are not the source of desires, the eternal master of ceremonies.

7) Beg for help every time you need, having the good sense of begging to the right persons.

8) Diferentiate real problems from imaginary problems and eliminate the imaginary problems,
because they are a pure waste of time and occupy a mental space precious to things more important.

9) Try to discover the pleasure of daily facts, like sleeping, eating and taking a bath, without thinking that this is the maximum to desire to do in life.

10)  Avoid to envolve yourself in ansiety and tension of other people, in a compulsive way.
Wait a litte and after return to dialogue, the action.

In the next post we will see the other 10 rule.

To be continued....


José Simões