You’ve probably heard the saying “Give someone power and you’ll know their vices”. This phrase reflects the idea that power, whether it comes in the form of money or fame, has the ability to somehow magnify both our qualities and our flaws. If you are an unfair person, your poverty will have the advantage of “curbing” your unfair behaviors because…
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How can we resist evil? The one that knocks at our door every day through hundreds of manifestations as repeated as they are insignificant. Evil has many faces. It can disguise itself in different ways to seduce us. It tempts us, solicits us and finally it gets into us if we are not careful. But what is evil? Is it…
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Some lessons learned from watching those who do better than others Adopting the mindset of a dream team member How to become an essential part of a team The initial selection of team members is the most important factor in the success of a team. After this stage, there is one essential element to becoming a group that surpasses…
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Choose your environment, choose who you are We are the environment in which we evolve. Have you seen a clown fish or 2000 meters deep? There is no such thing. A clown fish, in order to give its best, must live in warm waters filled with corals and sea anemones. Its beauty is made possible by its environment. Choosing your…
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We are all born once, but how many of us manage to be born a second time? What does it mean to be born a second time? It is simply finding the path to awakening, that is, seeing the light again, this time in a metaphysical way. The first birth When we are born, we have not asked anything of…
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Humanity has followed a path that has materialised in a particular trajectory with regard to the notion of wealth. In time immemorial, wealth was spiritual power. In hunter-gatherer tribes, it was always the shamans who ruled over other humans. The land belonged to no one, since they had not yet initiated the sedentarisation that followed the mastery of agriculture. As…
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We tend to get lost in long lists of tasks to be done, the so-called “to do list”. While this can be a useful exercise in many ways, it can be disconcerting because the number of tasks can be endless. So why is it important to define one thing to do each day and the rest would be a bonus?…
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Life has become a bucket list, a list of things to do before you die, like skydiving, petting dolphins, climbing the Himalayas. Should we be happy with such a society that is not short of imagination when it comes to planning our next holiday? We have definitely entered the era of the leisure society, at least for part of humanity.…
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We are increasingly told that it is wrong to have an ego and even an identity. While this idea is rooted in philosophical or spiritual traditions (Taoism, Buddhism, etc.), it is also the work of new age movements that propose ways to achieve happiness. While it is true that it is rather disabling to have an oversized ego, it is…
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The power of thinking in terms of a five-year term (the power of 5-year thinking) We often tend to overestimate what we can achieve in the short term, whereas we tend to underestimate what we can achieve in the long term. It’s quite easy to imagine what you’ll be doing next weekend, but it’s not so easy to plan a…
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