You were born somewhere and you may simply be unhappy about the place you’re living in. Have you ever thought that the country where you’re living in is comparable as your life partner: you may be made for it or not. Since a country has many characteristics that make it unique (like weather, language, political system, mentalities, wealth, culture, education…
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We might be perplexed and doubtful, are we following the right track? Are we are heading in a direction in which we’re really secure? This occurs when we don’t clearly see our values. When you want to make a decision, you need to do it according to your core values. The problem is that our day-to-day life may divert us…
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A digest of Chris Bailey’s book, The productivity project. Productivity is about working smarter by better managing energy and attention (let alone time). Productivity boils down to doing the most important thing, not doing more. Adequate productivity, according to the author, lies between two extremes. It is a midpoint between the hyperactivity of the trader and the hyperdetachment of the…
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Achieving a big goal is more a matter of giving something away rather than acquiring: to get something, you need to choose. We are somehow told that we can get anything, without telling us that to do so we have to be ready to sacrifice everything. That’s why growing as an individual means knowing what we are ready to let…
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Recently I listened to a Mike Tyson interview during which he confessed he had to refrain from having sex for 5 years in order to perform best in boxing. He said that chastity was one the reasons why he became a champion. Besides, I read Mohandas Gandhi’s biography in which he explained that he stopped having sex successfully at the…
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As you may have noticed, most people primarily speak and learn vehicular languages (also called lingua franca). This is because they want to be pragmatic and optimize their time and effort by focusing in on a “useful language”. First of all, what makes a language attractive to learn? Here are a few criteria: – Number of speakers – Average wealth…
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As many overlook it, life in northern countries was shaped by winter. That’s because people were anxious about winter and its calamities (starvation, diseases etc.) that they were eager to work hard all year long. Since almost nothing could be harvested during that season, people learnt how to save and make provisions for bad times. As we don’t experience such…
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Pride may be defined as a sense of deep respect for oneself, in another word, it is the love of oneself. Out of this feeling, we are inclined to express compassion, love and esteem towards others. We may understand that there is a direct relationship between the way we deal with ourselves and the way we treat others: internal respect…
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Is it not frustrating to notice that it is still so difficult today to empower human beings to change their behavior towards nature? What is the reason that explains this failure as well as those in relation to the massive challenges of modernity? Why do people continue to pollute, to make things dirty or harm others? The answer seems quite…
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“Vous” is a formal way to talk to people in French, it basically helps putting in some degree of distance as a sign of respect. Something that we aren’t all aware of, is that it is also a sign, a way to protect ourselves from an intrusion into our own “mental space”. Indeed, when you say “vous” to someone, you…
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