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“But I’m just a sidewalk poet, a son of bitumen.” The people of Lyon, France call Ememem, an anonymous local street artist, “the pavement surgeon”. The work is called flacking, from the French word flaque, meaning puddle, also symbolically referring to an area that differs in appearance from the surrounding area. Beginning in an alleyway […]
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There are countless quotes about the importance of goal-setting: “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins “The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done,
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In some parts of the world, catching a monkey involves halving a coconut, cutting a hole the size of a monkey’s hand in it and hammering it to a tree with a banana inside. The monkey comes along, smells the banana, puts his hand through the hole, grabs the banana, but can’t get his fist
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“We fight for care and against stigma. For you. For all of us. It is a duty of humanity, a public service mission and a fight for social justice. I promise you: you are not alone.” -Marie-Alix de Putter, Founder and President, Bluemind Foundation Training hairdressers as mental health ambassadors through the Heal by Hair,
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“Complex systems are weakened, even killed, when deprived of stressors.” — Nassim Taleb Our world is ever changing. Our mental default drives us to try and minimize disruption. We strive to put processes in place that re-establish equilibrium and coherence. This worthy mindset has its place, yet becoming entrenched in attempts to eliminate the unpredictable,
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“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.”
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“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstractand profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anythingparticular or external, but it has a unique power to express innerstates or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly;it needs no mediation.” -Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and Brain Som Sabadell flashmob – Banco Sabadellhttps://youtu.be/GBaHPND2QJg?si=eFBNp_VSZovKs-4m
Are you stuck in the Marshmallow Experiment? Medical education and training can deliver rewards and satisfaction in terms of achievement, increasing competency and patient interaction, but it is also an exercise in significant sacrifice and delayed gratification. Such things as time, money, relationships, leisure activities are put on hold in service of becoming and growing as
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It’s likely that all of us have, at some point in our careers, worked in a toxic workplace. Workplaces where the leadership is either willfully ignorant or consciously complicit in implementing policies that create breeding grounds of cutthroat competitiveness, loneliness, exhaustion and misery. We have many rational reasons for staying in a toxic workplace. Professor
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“My religion is kindness” Dalai Lama “If you think that you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” Dalai Lama The quality of being friendly, generous and considerate Dictionary definition of kindness Is being kind easy? I suspect that most of us might answer-sometimes. When all is going swimmingly in
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