Why are we inclined to conformism? We’re afraid of regretting our actions if we take the risk of innovating, instead of conforming. This is a somewhat understandable fear since when it comes to innovation 50 % may succeed, but also another 50 % may doomed to oblivion because of failure. This explains why conformity is a safe guarantee of survival…
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The sun was on the top of the Egyptian pantheon. Why is this so? It’s simply because all lives depend on it. Why should we revere the sun and seek to emanate its qualities? First, we need to appreciate the inner qualities of the sun in order give it a human dimension (personify it). The sun is radiant, it gives…
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As the saying goes, we preach more by our actions than by our words. Let us be even more extreme in this regard. Let us not ever speak a single word to tell somebody off. It seems impossible, doesn’t it? It may seem to be self-repressing. Indeed, sometimes we may have to speak our minds, but it needs to be…
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When it comes to communication and consciousness raising to a wide audience, video seems to be the hype media. Indeed, we are attending to an overwhelming phenomenon which takes youth up by conquering all their attention. Are we returning to a non-littered civilization? Probably not, but we may move back to an ideographic one in which people (especially youngsters) prefer…
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Our modern education system is flawed. It has been designed to serve an economic machine which is contrary to its origins when it emerged in Greece. Indeed, the word school comes from the Greek word (by the intermediate of old French eschole) σχολή, skholế which literally means “leisure”, “free time” or “rest”. According to its roots, the goal of school…
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