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This question arose after I read an interview with Simon Sinek. He intensely dislikes the term soft skills preferring instead the term human skills. This, he says, eliminates the idea of opposites and I would also suggest, the whiff of optional when juxtaposing the words soft and hard skills. Human skills are about becoming a […]
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“The dose makes the poison” –Paracelsus (shortened version of his original maxim) This maxim beautifully encapsulates the ongoing dilemma of knowing the correct dosage of stress in our lives. Length of exposure can influence whether even small doses can be both beneficial or harmful. In this era of so-called personalized medicine, how often do we
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Burnout shuts out hope or possibility. Creativity, on the other hand, seeks fresh perspectives, novelty and opportunity. A creative mindset is not easily accessed in the midst of burnout and we may resist what we see as irrelevant and foolish. Reading stories of people whose careers are built around imagination and innovation offers the realization
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Our personal Board of Inspiration dramatically influences our perspective, our imagination, our enthusiasm and ultimately our life trajectory. This Board needs to be carefully curated and regularly updated. Like any Board complacency, dullness and predictability can set in. If we choose to spend our time with people who don’t inspire us, we miss out on
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The busyness of the day-to-day grinds from morning to night. Practicality and “reality” dominate and reign supreme. The tiny voice of the soul whispers, maybe falls silent. Have we created an artificial dichotomy, that ensures mutual destruction? Has a symbiotic relationship been severed, without us even realizing? Yet, we do realize. We sense a hollowness,
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I used to find discussions of nature too dense and at times dull. I now devour these books as lyrical sources of wisdom, fascination and beauty. They implore me to pay attention and connect to my surroundings with a renewed sense of wonder. The writing grounds itself in reality and immediacy, countering the virtual and
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I recently visited the Robie House in Chicago, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. I experienced An architectural immersion in symmetry, coherence and beauty. This geometrically balanced space embodies the cornerstones of Wright’s architectural philosophy: simplicity, humanity, integrity and connection. “Organic Architecture is an architecture from within outward, in which entity is an ideal. (…). Organic
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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 don’t attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.”― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life Our beliefs show up in many different forms. At times, they arrive like bolts of lightning, triggered by a person, an environment or
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