One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (Italian: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci listen, known as Leonardo da Vinci), born on 15 April 1452 in Vinci (Tuscany) and died on 2 May 1519 in Amboise (Touraine), was an Italian painter and a…
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There is no melancholy master-of-arms. Alfred de Musset Alfred de Musset was a French writer of the Romantic period, born on 11 December 1810 in Paris, where he died on 2 May 1857. Anyone who seeks to excel and become the best in any field, be it fencing or poetry for example, has no time to lament his fate or…
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Always choose the path that seems best even if it seems more difficult. The habit will soon make it pleasant. Pythagoras Pythagoras (in ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας / Puthagóras) is a pre-Socratic religious reformer and philosopher who is said to have been born around 580 BC on Samos, an island in the Aegean Sea south-east of the city of Athens; his…
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The important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle. The important thing is not to have won, but to have fought. Pierre de Coubertin Pierre de Coubertin (born Charles Pierre Fredy de Coubertin), Baron de Coubertin, born on January 1, 1863 in Paris and died on September 2, 1937 in Geneva, Switzerland, was a French historian and…
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Why is it necessary to work every day to improve one’s heart? One of the possible answers to this question is that it harmonizes relationships in a society. When you work on yourself, you gradually erase the differences that separate you from others, you realize that the gap you have created with others is not so great. Daily attention to…
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Sometimes you want to rush things: a meeting, a promotion, a trip etc. We believe that our will alone can overcome everything. However, in spite of a steely mentality, it happens that things get stuck, that they don’t go as we wanted. We end up feeling guilty and doubting our value. What can we do about it? How can we…
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Some of us are guided by values, others are primarily driven by goals, while others are governed by their emotions. Depending on whether we belong to one of these three categories, we operate differently in our daily lives. There are two possible approaches in which we are proactive (intentional or strategic). There would be a third in which we are…
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Your brain has limited capabilities. One of the best ways to tire it out is to make trivial decisions throughout the day, such as choosing which pants you will wear or answering unimportant questions etc. These micro decisions affect your ability to think about more important matters that require much more cognitive ability. Imagine that your brain is a computer…
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We all have a natural greatness that we forget over time, whether through education or a social context that pushes us to fit in, to choose a role that we have not necessarily chosen. Thus, we spend our lives occupying roles without having really (at least apparently) wanted to, sometimes as a child, sometimes as a student, sometimes as a…
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There are qualities necessary to become a warrior according to Japanese tradition. The bushido (the way of the warrior) is composed of eight values necessary to form the martial character: righteousness (義, Gi, “rectitude”, “rigour”, the spirit of justice), heroic courage (勇, Yū), benevolence and compassion (仁, Jin, sometimes also translated as “greatness of soul” or “generosity”), respect (礼, Rei),…
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