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  • Fear of Life

    by Alexander Loewen “One day I read a book and my whole life changed”. This is what Orhan Pamuk writes in his book “The New Life”.  It is a difficult book, it cost me a lot of time and energy to understand it, if I did at all. But…Recently, I read a book.  My whole…

  • As Long As You Live I Will Continue to Live

    ‘Yes grandma’ I would reply every time my grandma told this to me. She would smile, happy and content. My grandma and I were born on the same day. May 6. Just that her birthday was 50 years earlier than mine. I was apparently very much in a hurry to arrive and everyone was trying hard to…

  • How to Make Hard Choices

    by Ruth Cheng Another talk on TED, which came with an epiphany in the end. I love such stories or such talks for that matter. This one is about making hard choices. I have always been interested in this subject: making choices or decisions because I repeatedly find myself in that situation. So this fifteen minutes talk spoke directly…

  • Lollipop Moments

    We have all changed someone’s life — usually without even realizing it Yet another great TED talk; this time it is about leadership. Most enthusiastically and entertainingly delivered by Drew Dudley. He tells us his story about changing a girl’s life entirely without even having recognized it. Just through a simple lollipop. Much later he understands that …

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson on Success

    I stumbled over this poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson today. He is a 19th cc. US American thinker, literate and poet. He belongs to the school of transcendentalists as I read. So, he belonged to a generation of people, whose attempt was to define spirituality and religion that reflect  the new understandings of their era. He was involved in social reforms such…

  • On My Roots

    My friend has a hobby: he is a genealogist. So, his passion is finding out about his family roots. He is German and he has been able trace back his roots that took him to today’s Czech Republic. It is not where it stops.  And he will find it out.   I have always admired…

  • On Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz

    “You plan for one thing, something else happens instead…” I watched this talk of Kathryn Schulz more than once. It moves me as much each time. She says we are all so obsessed by being right and getting things right because doing so makes us feel good, valuable and safe. Yet, being wrong is a most natural…

  • On Being Myself

    This last week has been one of those whenI needed to think about my identity or identities a little more intensively, again. I read things, had conversations or met new people, who made me think or react in certain ways that I had to reflect upon. I read an essay from an expat girl from the US,…

  • ‘A Better You’ on TED

    I recently discovered a series of talks on TED (Ideas Worth Spreading) named ‘A Better You.’ The talks are about you and your life, it is about the things that may or should matter to you. They make you reflect upon yourself. They are of varying length, from 3 minutes to half an hour, so…

  • Impressions from a Marketing Conference

    I survived my fist marketing conference. I am a passionate researcher. To this date I have participated in a a few conferences, we were academic. I was recommended at work to attend this conference, a non-academic one, so I did. It was an experience for me in all aspects and I am happy about it.…