Knowledge Archives - Excellence Thinking https://excellencethinking.com/en/category/general/knowledge/ Sun, 07 Sep 2025 08:34:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://excellencethinking.com/storage/2021/06/cropped-xthinking-2-32x32.png Knowledge Archives - Excellence Thinking https://excellencethinking.com/en/category/general/knowledge/ 32 32 196612516 How to Fight Depression? https://excellencethinking.com/en/how-to-fight-depression/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-fight-depression https://excellencethinking.com/en/how-to-fight-depression/#respond Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:33:29 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=17573 Some people are not able to see the world through rose-colored glasses. Something within them feels broken. The consequence is quite sad: they are limited in their capacity to feel joy. Their entire existence is filtered through a mental opacity that prevents them from enjoying the present moment and expressing who they truly are. If you recognize yourself, even just…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/how-to-fight-depression/feed/ 0 17573 The History of Spanish https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-history-of-spanish/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-history-of-spanish https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-history-of-spanish/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:51:17 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=17454 I. General introduction and approach to the book Spanish, the second or third world language depending on the criteria measured, occupies a central place in the lives of more than 500 million people. The result of a long historical evolution, it is today the official language of 21 countries, mainly distributed between Latin America and Spain, with a presence in…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-history-of-spanish/feed/ 0 17454 Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” https://excellencethinking.com/en/leo-tolstoys-war-and-peace/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leo-tolstoys-war-and-peace https://excellencethinking.com/en/leo-tolstoys-war-and-peace/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:12:21 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=17438 Introduction: General context and objectives of the work Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is a historical and philosophical fresco, written between 1865 and 1869, which takes place between 1805 and 1812, during the Napoleonic Wars. The novel confronts two major dimensions: on the one hand, the collective scale of History, marked by the clash between Napoleonic France and Imperial Russia;…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/leo-tolstoys-war-and-peace/feed/ 0 17438 What’s Wrong With Cultural Appropriation? https://excellencethinking.com/en/whats-wrong-with-cultural-appropriation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-wrong-with-cultural-appropriation https://excellencethinking.com/en/whats-wrong-with-cultural-appropriation/#respond Tue, 26 Dec 2023 12:47:47 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=16866 Cultural appropriation is not something everyone understands. Most people don’t see where the harm is being done. Let me give you some pointers. Cultural Appropriation, Another Name For A War Trophy In the past, when two armies engaged in battle and one finally managed to gain the upper hand, war trophies were often captured. For example, at the end of…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/whats-wrong-with-cultural-appropriation/feed/ 0 16866 Why Do People Get Tattoos? https://excellencethinking.com/en/why-do-people-get-tattoos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-do-people-get-tattoos https://excellencethinking.com/en/why-do-people-get-tattoos/#respond Mon, 09 Oct 2023 07:35:05 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=16698 There are countless reasons why people would go in for tattoos. First of all, let’s go back to its origins. Tattooing takes its name from the Polynesian word “tatau” [Marquesan tatu meaning “to mark the skin” or Tahitian ta tau, from “ta” meaning “to incise”]. Originally, it was a mark of social status with a precise meaning (prowess in combat,…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/why-do-people-get-tattoos/feed/ 0 16698 Do We Need To Overhaul Schools From Top To Bottom? https://excellencethinking.com/en/do-we-need-to-overhaul-schools-from-top-to-bottom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=do-we-need-to-overhaul-schools-from-top-to-bottom https://excellencethinking.com/en/do-we-need-to-overhaul-schools-from-top-to-bottom/#respond Wed, 20 Sep 2023 08:58:14 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=16674 Schools were created for a specific purpose, and it’s not necessarily the one you think. The purpose of school is to create citizens. In short, the subjects studied are often no more than a pretext for inculcating in pupils the citizen’s behavior needed to create a nation. Without schools, there are no citizens, without citizens, there is no nation, no…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/do-we-need-to-overhaul-schools-from-top-to-bottom/feed/ 0 16674 What Does It Mean To Be A Man In The 21St Century? https://excellencethinking.com/en/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-man-in-the-21st-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-man-in-the-21st-century https://excellencethinking.com/en/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-man-in-the-21st-century/#respond Tue, 01 Aug 2023 09:57:53 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=16545 The position of men in the 20th century has undergone an unprecedented upheaval. At the beginning of the century, the man was the head of the family. He made most of the decisions in the home. He was the one who went to the factory and shed his blood on the battlefield. The wife’s role was also crucial to the…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-man-in-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 16545 The 3 Ways Of Reacting To An Aggression: Avoidance; Fight; Tetanization https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-3-ways-of-reacting-to-an-aggression-avoidance-fight-tetanization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-3-ways-of-reacting-to-an-aggression-avoidance-fight-tetanization https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-3-ways-of-reacting-to-an-aggression-avoidance-fight-tetanization/#respond Sat, 06 May 2023 11:06:39 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=16003 Conflict is a daily reality and there are always several ways of dealing with it. We can sometimes confront it, avoid it, and as a last resort we can become tetanized by it. Each of these ways of reacting has been brought to us by nature. Our survival so far has been made possible by the use of one of…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-3-ways-of-reacting-to-an-aggression-avoidance-fight-tetanization/feed/ 0 16003 How Did The Gurkhas Become The Elite Soldiers Of The British Army? https://excellencethinking.com/en/how-did-the-gurkhas-become-the-elite-soldiers-of-the-british-army/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-did-the-gurkhas-become-the-elite-soldiers-of-the-british-army https://excellencethinking.com/en/how-did-the-gurkhas-become-the-elite-soldiers-of-the-british-army/#respond Thu, 13 Apr 2023 05:40:40 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=15941 There is something surprising about the recruitment of some of the British Army soldiers: about 4,000 of them are integrated each year and are born in Nepal and therefore do not have English as their mother tongue. The British, unlike the French, have historically had a more racial view of war. According to a book “The Martial Races” written by…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/how-did-the-gurkhas-become-the-elite-soldiers-of-the-british-army/feed/ 0 15941 Knowledge Needs To Be Embodied In Action… https://excellencethinking.com/en/knowledge-needs-to-be-embodied-in-action/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=knowledge-needs-to-be-embodied-in-action https://excellencethinking.com/en/knowledge-needs-to-be-embodied-in-action/#respond Mon, 20 Mar 2023 07:48:36 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=15863 … the rest can stay stored on computer servers There is a growing gap between the knowledge stored on computer servers and the knowledge stored in the heads of humans. Previously, when only books could store knowledge, humans could still compete with these “storage spaces” by dedicating their lives to scholarship. Moreover, much knowledge was not stored in books because…

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