Chance favors only prepared minds. Louis Pasteur We do not control the opportunities that come our way, what we control is our way of seizing them as best we can. Fortune favors the bold, it is said, and one might add that it favors those who train every day. Since we cannot pull the strings of destiny, what we need…
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To make war and to dominate its Greek neighbors, here is what summarizes the statute of the Spartans at the conclusion of the Peloponnesian wars. Its great rival Athens fell, and it is undoubtedly thanks to its model of life that Sparta was able to triumph. To live as a Spartan, it is to be satisfied with little even if…
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A powerful mantra to repeat every day It is very tempting to blame others for a situation that works against us. It takes the weight of responsibility off our shoulders and keeps us from questioning ourselves. Of course, there are things we cannot control about the outcome of an undertaking. We can bemoan the circumstances, but it is better to…
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It’s hard to identify 3 books out of all the ones you’ve read to make a top 3. Each one offers its own contribution to who we are and often, what we read, we don’t quite manage to assimilate because we are missing some degrees of maturity. In short, it’s not the book that is bad, it’s us who are…
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One can do without all books, yet all books are essential to live and to like living. Hafid Aggoune In the age of YouTube and Instagram, the book seems to have lost some of its glory. The text remains of course present, if only in the emails we receive, the titles of videos we still make the effort to read,…
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Why Does Gardening Teach You The Right Mindset For Entrepreneurship? Gardening is not just planting vegetables and waiting for them to grow. On the contrary, it is a job that involves various tasks that each have their own importance. Choosing A Planting Location: Doing Your Market Research For a plant to flourish, it must have sunlight, favorable soil and adequate…
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The moment of epiphany is not what you think Sometimes it’s only at the bottom of the hole that we begin to see the light and understand what’s happening to us. We are all looking for a moment of epiphany, that is to say the one that reveals the hidden meaning of existence when everything seems dark, opaque or confused.…
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A certain culture has imposed itself on us. It comes to us from films, series and the charismatic characters they portray. This so-called popular mass culture has made us adopt codes coming from another world and above all it has incited us to ape these characters full of aplomb, whether consciously or not. This change is taking the appearance for…
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Think like a chess player The loss of meaning makes us either go in all directions or ground us. The global health crisis has exposed the nihilism that consumes our lives. For some, welfare gives the illusion of a world that goes on, without suspecting that the next world will be quite different. For those who have not experienced the…
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In a fast-changing world, economic paradigms are changing to take on the appearance of simplicity and common sense. In his book “Bullshit jobs”, David Graeber explains how the jobs created by modernity are absurd, immoral and in some cases stupid. The information technology revolution has created a parallel world in which jobs don’t quite make the sense they used to.…
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