Excellence Thinking https://excellencethinking.com/en/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:56:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://excellencethinking.com/storage/2021/06/cropped-xthinking-2-32x32.png Excellence Thinking https://excellencethinking.com/en/ 32 32 196612516 “AI Doesn’t Do The Work Better, But More Easily And Faster” → Convenience Kills Quality (Old Silicon Valley Saying) https://excellencethinking.com/en/ai-doesnt-do-the-work-better-but-more-easily-and-faster-%e2%86%92-convenience-kills-quality-old-silicon-valley-saying/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ai-doesnt-do-the-work-better-but-more-easily-and-faster-%25e2%2586%2592-convenience-kills-quality-old-silicon-valley-saying https://excellencethinking.com/en/ai-doesnt-do-the-work-better-but-more-easily-and-faster-%e2%86%92-convenience-kills-quality-old-silicon-valley-saying/#respond Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:55:57 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=17846 Don’t be surprised that AI does your job less well. What matters to whatever replaces you is speed and a standard of quality that is very often lower than what you are used to producing as a final result. Industrializing thought has never been a matter of producing substantially better; it simply makes access to intelligence available at a modest…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/is-it-life-or-death-that-attracts-you/feed/ 0 17838 How to adapt to a world that is changing at full speed? https://excellencethinking.com/en/how-to-adapt-to-a-world-that-is-changing-at-full-speed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-adapt-to-a-world-that-is-changing-at-full-speed https://excellencethinking.com/en/how-to-adapt-to-a-world-that-is-changing-at-full-speed/#respond Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:50 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=17829 If you are old enough — you are over 30 —, you know that the world we live in today is not quite normal. The changes we are witnessing are accelerating in such a way that, likely, in 30 years the world will bear no resemblance to the one we have known. AI and climate disorder, two elements that will…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/how-to-adapt-to-a-world-that-is-changing-at-full-speed/feed/ 0 17829 Do not seek to optimize your life, seek satisfaction https://excellencethinking.com/en/do-not-seek-to-optimize-your-life-seek-satisfaction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=do-not-seek-to-optimize-your-life-seek-satisfaction https://excellencethinking.com/en/do-not-seek-to-optimize-your-life-seek-satisfaction/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:36:42 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=17820 There are lives spent wanting to optimize everything all the time. This seemingly legitimate pursuit conceals a trap that may sooner or later close in on you. When you are never satisfied with anything, you expose yourself to an endless quest — that of constantly running toward what is better. This flaw, close to perfectionism, is unfortunately a mechanism in…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/do-not-seek-to-optimize-your-life-seek-satisfaction/feed/ 0 17820 Love can also help to seal the past https://excellencethinking.com/en/love-can-also-help-to-seal-the-past/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=love-can-also-help-to-seal-the-past https://excellencethinking.com/en/love-can-also-help-to-seal-the-past/#respond Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:23:09 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=17812 The perception of past time is constantly altered. If, at a given moment T – in the present – we can say that we are relatively objective about what is happening to us, the passage of time inevitably alters that objectivity, under the combined effect of feelings and memory. What you have experienced, you will go so far as to…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/love-can-also-help-to-seal-the-past/feed/ 0 17812 The only wealth that truly matters is having a pure heart https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-only-wealth-that-truly-matters-is-having-a-pure-heart/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-only-wealth-that-truly-matters-is-having-a-pure-heart https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-only-wealth-that-truly-matters-is-having-a-pure-heart/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:03:10 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=17798 The world of social media often speaks only of money and notoriety, even though the satisfaction these provide is limited. Money allows us to meet essential and intermediate needs, but beyond a certain point, it is no longer enough. To go further, we must work with our hearts in such a way that they help us see the world in…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-only-wealth-that-truly-matters-is-having-a-pure-heart/feed/ 0 17798 The People We Appreciate The Most Are Often Those Who Have Developed The Most Mature Psychological Defense Mechanisms https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-people-we-appreciate-the-most-are-often-those-who-have-developed-the-most-mature-psychological-defense-mechanisms-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-people-we-appreciate-the-most-are-often-those-who-have-developed-the-most-mature-psychological-defense-mechanisms-2 https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-people-we-appreciate-the-most-are-often-those-who-have-developed-the-most-mature-psychological-defense-mechanisms-2/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:41:33 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=17790 He Had This Way of Disappearing When Things Weren’t Going Well He had this way of disappearing when things weren’t going well. Not by slamming the door, no. Just by becoming a little quieter, a little more elsewhere. His wife would say of him: “He goes into battle alone.” And it was true. He would return from his inner caverns…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-people-we-appreciate-the-most-are-often-those-who-have-developed-the-most-mature-psychological-defense-mechanisms-2/feed/ 0 17790 The More Powerful You Feel, The More You Must Humble Yourself Before God https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-more-powerful-you-feel-the-more-you-must-humble-yourself-before-god/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-more-powerful-you-feel-the-more-you-must-humble-yourself-before-god https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-more-powerful-you-feel-the-more-you-must-humble-yourself-before-god/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:50:03 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=17782 Power acts as a psychological revealer: as it elevates you, it gradually erases the gazes that judge you. This disappearance of external safeguards persuades you that everything is owed to you, and it is in this space, empty of any reminder of order, that evil finds its most fertile ground. Humility Is The Compass Of Power The kings of old…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/the-more-powerful-you-feel-the-more-you-must-humble-yourself-before-god/feed/ 0 17782 How To Become A Good Person? https://excellencethinking.com/en/how-to-become-a-good-person/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-become-a-good-person https://excellencethinking.com/en/how-to-become-a-good-person/#respond Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:15:51 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=17774 Moral suffering often takes root in the harsh judgment we pass on ourselves. Happiness, by contrast, intrinsically depends on our own self-esteem. Thus, the key to felicity would lie in the cultivation of goodness. Since goodness is inseparable from virtue, it is by elevating the qualities of our soul that we can hope to achieve lasting happiness. The Path Of…

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]]> https://excellencethinking.com/en/how-to-become-a-good-person/feed/ 0 17774 Speak to People as If They Were All Awakened https://excellencethinking.com/en/speak-to-people-as-if-they-were-all-awakened/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=speak-to-people-as-if-they-were-all-awakened https://excellencethinking.com/en/speak-to-people-as-if-they-were-all-awakened/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:49:28 +0000 https://excellencethinking.com/?p=17764 A common mistake we all make when communicating with others is to take them as they are, without considering what they could become. A person is a potential for change. Often, arguments arise in communication because we address the lower dimension of the other person rather than their most sublime aspect. Address the Most Sublime Part Every being has a…

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