CURRENT MISSION

Love, work and play

ABOUT ME

I love the Dutch weather, music, films, photography, arts, smoking cigars with friends and drinking a glass of port every now and then.

PHILOSOPHY

Work for a cause, not applause. Live your life to express not to impress. Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.

People are inherently emphatic and good.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting people in Amsterdam, telling stories, surfing couches.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had some experience with couch surfing together with a friend of mine in Tehran. Besides I've spend some time in Amsterdam with some travelers through friends.

Interests

Photography, markets, networks, crowds, math, love, social challenges, complex systems, debating, sports, music, sociology, entrepreneurship, marketing, theatre

• arts
• photography
• drinking
• movies
• music
• surfing
• sports
• entrepreneurship
• law
• mathematics
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Just some random books I like:
The Spirit Level
The Alchemist
The End of Poverty
Outliers
The Evolution of Cooperation
The Power of Now
Freakonomics
Cows Pigs Wars and Witches
Malcolm Gladwell
Paulo Coelho

Teach, Learn, Share

1. Change
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”

2. Control.
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

3. Forgiveness
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

4. Action.
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

5. The present moment.
“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.”

6. Everyone is human.
“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”
“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”

7. Persist.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

8. Goodness.
“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.”
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

9. Truth
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”

10. Development.
“Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.”

From: http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2011/08/31/gandhi/

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