Adolfo Neto

“Hébert had one firm rule: No Competing. Ever.”
― Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

“As much for his mind as for his body, Erwan likes to run it barefoot.”
― Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

“fat cells much more than passive storage sites for excess calories. Fat cells take in or release calories only when instructed to do so by external signals—and the master control is insulin. Too much insulin causes weight gain, whereas too little causes weight loss. So if we think about obesity as a disorder involving fat cells, then a radically different view emerges: Overeating doesn’t make us fat. The process of becoming fat makes us overeat.”
― David S. Ludwig, Always Hungry?: Conquer cravings, retrain your fat cells and lose weight permanently

“We know that chasing efficiency too far leads to fragility, and the current excellence models lack explicit minimal governance safeguards and the justification of weighting to be seen currently as universal models of anti-fragility.”
― Sinan Si Alhir, Exploring the Practice of Antifragility