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Personal Development

Reflections on the Year – Key Questions for Personal Growth

The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker As the holiday season approaches, it’s a natural time to reflect on the past year and set intentions for the year ahead. This period of reflection can be incredibly energizing and insightful, helping us to understand what has driven us, what we’ve achieved, and where we want to go next. Inspired … Continue reading Reflections on the Year – Key Questions for Personal Growth

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Creativity

Ego and Moral Burden

I was reading the book “1Q84” by Haruki Murakami and this sentence raised my focus “But once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality” as I think it touched on profound philosophical and existential themes. Let’s break it down: In summary, this quote encapsulates the idea that moral awareness and responsibility are inextricably linked to the emergence of the ego. … Continue reading Ego and Moral Burden

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Work and Life

Finding Your Voice: Insights from Author Elaine Lin Hering

Have you ever found yourself biting your tongue during a meeting, or hesitating to share a dissenting opinion? You’re not alone. In a recent McKinsey Author Talk, Elaine Lin Hering delves into the reasons behind our tendency to stay silent at work and offers valuable insights on how to reclaim and use the voice we’ve learned to bury. The Silence We’ve Internalized Elaine Lin Hering’s … Continue reading Finding Your Voice: Insights from Author Elaine Lin Hering

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Critical Thinking

Unity in Diversity: A Celebration of Our Differences

In a world where differences often divide us, the concept of “unity in diversity” stands as a beacon of hope and understanding. It reminds us that despite our varied backgrounds, cultures, and beliefs, we are interconnected as human beings. Let’s delve into the richness of diversity and explore how embracing it can lead us to greater unity and harmony. Understanding Unity in Diversity Unity in … Continue reading Unity in Diversity: A Celebration of Our Differences

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Work and Life

Why Some Questions about Work Popped up on My Mind

It would be illusory to think that we leave our personal culture, beliefs and values in the locker room of our workplace and work mechanically. It would be also boring, I think. Therefore, some questions about work popped up. I believe that most of us hope to have the opportunity, through work, to gain recognition of our personal worth, of our uniqueness, in short of … Continue reading Why Some Questions about Work Popped up on My Mind

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Pointless Overthinking, Random Thoughts

Some Questions about Work

It would be illusory to think that we leave our personal culture, beliefs and values in the locker room of our workplace and work mechanically. It would be also boring, I think. Therefore, some questions about work popped up. I believe that most of us hope to have the opportunity, through work, to gain recognition of our personal worth, of our uniqueness, in short of … Continue reading Some Questions about Work

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Pointless Overthinking

Food

Hi everyone, Let’s talk about food today. I have always been interested in human universals and I also have had sufficient enough interaction with people from different cultures. I noticed a lot of similarities between all these people but one thing that always caught my attention more than anything else is how food works for all. We all know that we need food to literally … Continue reading Food

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Pointless Overthinking

Language and Mind/Culture

Hi everyone! I will do another language post, on a request long ago by Troy Headrick. Thanks Troy! I will talk about the relation between language and culture, which necessarily includes individual minds because culture happens when individual minds get together. This will be a bit longer but bear with meJ I will start with the best–known and maybe the most controversial hypothesis about language … Continue reading Language and Mind/Culture

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