Was a grandmother of yours hot?
My maternal grandmother: Judeo-Mallorcan, yes.
Does this mark?
There was stigma. Something has remained: if they got angry, my grandfather still called her "chuetona"...
What inspires you about this?
I am attracted to ancestral cultures, both Jewish and many others.
What interests you about them?
His wisdom to live our life better. I have traced knowledge in Japan, the East, Africa, Europe...
What does he find in the Hebrew tradition?
A wise Israeli woman tipped me off about Mazal, a concept that needs to be studied... Have you seen Fiddler on the Roof, the movie?
Yeah.
They sing Mazeltov, a song to wish for fortune, good luck, wealth... It comes from the Hebrew word mazal.
That means?
"Luck", and derives from the medieval Hebrew term for "destiny".
Luck, destiny: forces majeure!
It has its ancestral Semitic root in old Mesopotamia, where it meant "position of a star".
We say "you have a good star" still.
Your fortune, in any case, depends on heaven as much as on you.
Can I attract my own fortune?
The day my mother died I had to deliver a book: I delivered it, I arrived at the hospital... and my mother had already died.
Sorry. what does it mean to me
That I worked like crazy. I felt guilty. But all my life I had seen my mother work like this, from sun to sun...
I had learned it from her, then.
So she would have wanted to see me deliver the work. And so I was able to forgive myself.
Was he a workaholic?
And I ended up depressed. I wouldn't act that way today.
He was telling me how to attract fortune...
Being 0.2% of the world's population, Jews hold more than a hundred Nobel prizes!
And what is the key?
It is in the Mazal voice, whose consonants are eloquent: M refers to place; Z , on time; and L , to action.
And the message is...
It acts at the right moment and in the right place.
Act correctly.
And it is essential to train, to study. And alliances: nothing great can be achieved without alliances!
I'll take note.
Also note this sentence from Nietzsche that Victor Frankl considered: "He who has something to live for, can overcome any how".
And what is his "why"?
Dad had books. He read, he wrote. He wasn't talking to me. It was mysterious. I published my first book... and he read it.
And that spurred him on?
"I will never read you again, your book makes no sense", he said, which frustrated me deeply.
Well, you haven't stopped posting...
Father died a long time ago. But… am I proving anything to him? Maybe that's it.
Where are you supported?
In solitude If I write books, translate, record albums ( Hotel Guru ), organize a dinner with inspiring friends... it's to prevent my underlying melancholy from surfacing.
Personal growth books, right?
With a pseudonym, many. My books are more famous than I am. In my first book I condensed two hundred personal growth books: one per page... My most famous book is titled Ikigai .
What does it explain?
I explore human longevity and what motivates you to live (this means ikigai in Japanese). Oprah Winfrey recommended it on TV, it already has sixty-six translations...
What other pearls for better living hide ancestral wisdom?
What is wise is to be kind. Because we will always need each other.
Thanks! Another pearl, please.
If you don't face your unconscious in the conscious, it will rule you and you will call it destiny.
An other.
If pain can't be postponed, why are you postponing happiness?
An other.
You only have what you cannot lose in a shipwreck.
An other.
One loneliness another loneliness = zero loneliness.
An other.
Every time could be the last time.
An other.
There are no small tasks.
An other.
Learn to receive.
And two more, the last two.
Find someone to look up to. And... when you get angry, do the opposite of what you would do!
