or how to overcome the obstacles that lead us to excellence Steven Pressfield is the author of more than a dozen books. He has worked throughout his career in various creative fields: novels, non-fiction, writing for film, etc. In the book “The War of Art”, he teaches us the lessons learned from decades of experience The work of the greatest…
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Quit or be exceptional Demystifying quitting a project There are good and bad reasons to give up. Seth Godin, in his book, teaches us to ask ourselves the right questions before we even start a project. He puts forward several principles that we should all have in mind when approaching a problem. Here is a list of interesting ideas from…
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Our mind is like that, it gives more importance to the hardest things, regardless of the results. We are therefore naturally encouraged to seek effort on a daily basis since it offers us both gratification and a sense of accomplishment and even enhances our perception of our integration into society through work, which is a pillar value. This cognitive bias…
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Climate change is a perverse phenomenon in that the consequences of our current actions have no immediate effect. It is rather a kind of powder keg that we fill every day and that can explode at any moment. We are all more or less informed on the subject. However, those who do not seem to be interested in it are…
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It will not have escaped you, yoga is everywhere, it landed on the Californian coast several decades ago. Today, it is the whole of the Western world which devotes itself to it under more or less authentic forms. What is called in the West “yoga”, which means “union”, is essentially the asanas from the Hindu tradition. The asanas is not…
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Summary of Stephen King’s book This is not a book that attempts to explain writing from a technical point of view, although King details the principles in a dedicated section. It is a rather intimate book that approaches the art of writing from the perspective of the author’s personal life. You’ll learn about some of the techniques, but you’ll also…
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Be informed when Club xThinking opens The discovery of unfair advantages that we enjoy without knowing it There is often something that irritates us, that torments us because it gives us the impression that it is holding us back in our progress. The fact of not having been advantaged in life can indeed prove to be a heavy handicap except…
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The clock is ticking and the anxiety is mounting. What am I doing with my life? How would I feel if I were to die tomorrow? Would I be plagued by regrets or remorse, or could I leave with a light heart? Be informed when Club xThinking opens This is a question that we all ask ourselves at some point,…
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Your task is not to seek love, but simply to seek and find all the obstacles you have built against love.” Jalal al-dîn RûmiDjalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhi (Persian: جلالالدین محمد بلخی) or Rûmî, who was born in Balkh (present-day Afghanistan) in Khorasan (a large region of Persian culture) on September 30, 1207, and died in Konya (in present-day Turkey) on…
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Our intuition is sometimes our most valuable asset when it comes to making a decision. The apparent chaos, or at least the upheaval we witness, leaves little room for clarity. This confusion paralyzes our ability to make decisions, which makes us somewhat passive, well not quite. Indeed, not making a decision is a decision in itself. The problem is that…
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