Psychologist with clinical background. Co-founded Way Beyond. His work bridges psychology and organizational development, centered on meaningful conversation as the key to human transformation.
Four hundred students. Four hundred essays. One text. In an age where everyone must find "their truth," they all arrive at the same destination. The hive mind dressed in the rhetoric of radical self-expression.
I forgot to publish last Saturday. Not forgot and felt guilty—forgot entirely. On failing better, resisting the urge to be productive, and other paradoxes.
Uncertainty isn’t what threatens relationships—it’s what keeps them alive. The real danger lies in presuming we know everything about the other, extinguishing curiosity’s fire. What if mature desire is learning to want the familiar with fresh attention?
The Portuguese word 'ansiedade' carries within it 'ânsia'—yearning, eagerness. There's positive yearning and negative yearning. Our attempts to eliminate uncertainty are tragic because uncertainty is the source of enthusiasm that makes life worth living.
What happens in the space between someone finishing their sentence and your first conscious thought?
Ana Vargas Santos holds degrees in Organizational Psychology from Coimbra and Paris. After consulting in HR since 2009, she founded her own practice in 2020, focusing on people development. She writes regularly about our relationship with work.
