“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Seneca For the curious reader who wants the answer immediately, I urge you to bear with me and read through the post. But alas, time is short so I will tell you now that the secret …
Being part of a group means that you adopt many of the ideas they hold. It is the foundation of collaboration and society itself. However, it is also something that can cloud your judgement. An assault on the beliefs of the group could be perceived as an assault on your identity and so your defence …
Last Thursday, major Swedish newspaper “Dagens Nyheter” revealed that Mr Hamid Zafar – a celebrated principal, and expert advisor to Sweden’s second-largest political party – had written anti-Semitic (and some anti-immigrant/homophobic) comments under pseudonyms on Twitter and other forums between 2011-2015. Soon thereafter, he lost his job and all other positions he’d gotten thanks to …
As I opened my kindle for the first time in over a year earlier today I discovered that my brother Oskar, who had borrowed it during his year in China, had bought Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s search for meaning”. What surprised me was not the horrors Viktor Frankl described or the revealing anecdotes (Viktor was about …
This week has been a week characterized by an uncharacteristically high number of airhead moments. I have always been a bit of an airhead but thanks to Google calendar, numerous alarms throughout the day and various note-taking software (I currently have 550 Evernotes, 289 iCloud notes and 86 Outlook notes), I have been able to …